 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / April 2005OTP: What do you know about your hard drive?
(Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! -- Andy Still don't know anything about my hard drive, but that is cute, Andy. Thanks. Gwen m...@dn14.net wrote: > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > > No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the > happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html > Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! > > -- > Andy Still don't know anything about my hard drive, but that is cute, Andy. Thanks. Gwen m...@dn14.net wrote: > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > > No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the > happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html > Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! > > -- > Andy Still don't know anything about my hard drive, but that is cute, Andy. Thanks. Gwen m...@dn14.net wrote: > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > > No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the > happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html > Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! > > -- > Andy Still don't know anything about my hard drive, but that is cute, Andy. Thanks. Gwen m...@dn14.net wrote: > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > > No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the > happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html > Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! > > -- > Andy Still don't know anything about my hard drive, but that is cute, Andy. Thanks. Gwen m...@dn14.net wrote: > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > > No me neither, but those nice guys at Hitachi have been on the > happy pills and come up with this rather user friendly info: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html > Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! > > -- > Andy >(Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Now I bet you'll never call your HDD boring again! Umm.... it's in relation to microdrives, as used in MP3 players and such, not hard drives, but it definitely proves that some people just have too much time on their hands ;-) Anne Now how many of you guys remember them when they were called Winchesters, lived in cages and sounded like whirling derviches ? Peter >Now how many of you guys remember them when they were called >Winchesters, lived in cages and sounded like whirling derviches ? > >Peter And weighed more than 3 house bricks - LOL -- Andy >Now how many of you guys remember them when they were called >Winchesters, lived in cages and sounded like whirling derviches ? > >Peter Errmm.... guilty as charged. And I think we've still got a couple in the loft , along with the rest of the 'puter hall of fame ;-) Anybody got a barn or an old museum going spare? We keep *meaning* to weed them out, but just can't bear to part with the darn things. Anne >Now how many of you guys remember them when they were called >Winchesters, lived in cages and sounded like whirling derviches ? m'dear fellow, i go back before the winchester was invented. before the hard disc pack was invented (our first held a whopping 28 mbytes). the first disc i actually programmed was a 2-sided "fixed head" disc, which held 1mbyte/side. it was about 5 feet tall. the first disc i _used_ was connected to what we called a mainframe back then (the machine i have under the table here at home runs about 10,000 times faster than that mainframe). that consisted of 2 x 8' high units together with an 8' high controller. something like 25 mbytes, if i've got my sums right. and noise wasn't an issue because everything else in the room made a hideous din too. those were the days: you could see the individual transistors, then: none of these new-fangled chips we all use nowadays. [what sound does a whirling dervish make? i thought they were in trances when they whirled. :-]  SignatureRobin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge > [what sound does a whirling dervish make? i thought they were in > trances when they whirled. :-] They were steam powered - just like the oldish steam locomotives - and the sound was ?? SignatureA T (Sandy) Morton on the Bicycle Island In the Global Village http://www.millport.net Robin Did you ever visti the guy who ran the analytical EM in your Physiology Dept ? He had disks you could eat your dinner off - and xrays too. Me I go back to the age of cystal sets. Were you ever at Bletchley Park ? Peter > >Now how many of you guys remember them when they were called > >Winchesters, lived in cages and sounded like whirling derviches ? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > [what sound does a whirling dervish make? i thought they were in > trances when they whirled. :-] >Did you ever visti the guy who ran the analytical EM in your >Physiology Dept ? He had disks you could eat your dinner off - and >xrays too. no. there was a guy who came into our lab whose work (which kept him up at all sorts of hours of day and night) involved an on-line sheep. >Me I go back to the age of cystal sets. Were you ever at Bletchley >Park ? i never actually got a crystal set to work. bletchley rather predates me: reading my father's diaries i get the impression they were thinking of recruiting him, but i don't think it got as far as him going there. instead, the brilliant british army sent someone, who spoke fluent german, to india... SignatureRobin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge this was cute. but what i know about my harddrive is not cute.LOL kate > (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > Andy >this was cute. but what i know about my harddrive is not cute.LOL > >kate Yep, the only thing it was missing is Simon Cowell! >> (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> -- >> Andy -- Andy >>this was cute. but what i know about my harddrive is not cute.LOL >> >>kate > > Yep, the only thing it was missing is Simon Cowell! rotfl. kate >>> (Saw this on another group and thought it worth a mention) >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > -- > Andy |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.