4 Jan
2016
4 Jan
'16
11:07 p.m.
The comments in the rp06 walking across the floor reminds me of a time when I was
installing netnews at a very new company and as the data transferred from the tape (we
didn’t have a modem yet, that was to happen in a week or so) to the disk the disk got into
a walking state. I was standing with my foot against the front of the drive to keep it
from moving when a friend walked into the machine room and asked what I was doing. I said
‘keeping it all together’ and he asked about my foot. I moved it, the disk walked out a
small amount and I replace my foot. He laughed and walked away. About 15 or 20 minutes
later it was all back to ‘normal’ and I never had another problem with it.
David
On Jan 2, 2016, at 1:31 PM,
tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
several
RP06 (200MB) removable disks (for a picture and description, see
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/rp06.html