27 Apr
2018
27 Apr
'18
5:47 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Paul Winalski wrote:
Bin number was zero except on the IBM 2321 data cell
drive. CKD drives
supported a variable number of records on each track, hence the term
"record" rather than "sector".
Would that have been the infamous chicken-plucker?[*] Wherein if things
went OK, then they were OK, but if things went wrong...
[*]
Also known by, ahem, a name that rhymes...
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Dave Horsfall BSc DTM (VK2KFU) -- FuglySoft -- Gosford IT -- Unix/C/Perl (AbW)
People who fail to / understand security / surely will suffer. (tks: RichardM)