> any seek operation. Rapid seek operations would shake the floor of any
> raised floor computer room. These machines were used by many mainframe
> suppliers as an OEM disk drive.

I remember some of the PDP-11 disk drives. I wrote a program designed to
rock the drive across the floor in almost any direction.

I wish I had one of those cabinets now; it would make a wonderful
robot body...
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D. Jay Newman           ! DCX - it takes off and lands base down,
jay@sprucegrove.com     !       as God and Robert Heinlein intended.
http://enerd.ws/robots/ !

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