Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A500 harddrives Message-ID: <11448@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 8 Apr 89 16:24:00 GMT References: <1724@aucs.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 20 um, it'd be trivial (sorta) to put together an 80 connector ribbon cable to give you an extension cable so you can place things up on a shelf if that's what you want. But I don't think that'd be a good idea ... See, when you do somethin like that the ribbon cable not only introcudes all sorts of noise sources into your system (the wires make a fine antenna for certain frequencies -- there was a formula in High School Physics that'll tell you what frequency a wire of a given length is good as an antenna). But *also* you're introcuding more delays into a possibly very touchy set of timing assumptions. Remember -- 11 inches = 1 nanosecond. (And keep a vision in your mind of Grace Hopper holding up a wire and saying "This is 1 nanosecond"). -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.