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From: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: Washing machines, disk drives, resonance
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Date: 16 Feb 89 04:22:33 GMT
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In article <3438@sugar.uu.net> ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham) writes:
>
[stuff about resonant-seek program to make drives walk deleted]
> 
>This same program, resurrected some years later for exercising some 
>Memorex "washing machine" drives didn't do anything quite that drastic, 
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>but did manage to make 'em walk enough so a gap appeared between two
>adjacent cabinets.   

Speaking of household appliances, we have some STC drives with rather
plain cabinets.  Someone created a few sticky-backed labels with the
Maytag name & logo.  Every once in a while some non technical people
will get the $2 tour of our facilities, and one of them might say
`Gee whiz, I didn't know Maytag makes computer equipment'.

I usually 'fess up and let them in on the joke, but sometimes not.

        Steve Dempsey,  Center for Computer Assisted Engineering
  Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523    +1 303 491 0630
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