OFF: Mikey looks into silicon heaven

[Michael W Blackman]

You have a museum?

:)


----- Original Message -----
From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Mikey looks into silicon heaven


> Bob Lennon writes:
>
> > In a message dated 3/28/01 5:32:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK writes:
> >
> > > Bob Lennon writes:
> > >
> > >  > >  > Mike Coleman wishes to express that his hard drive has been
> > >  > >  > removed
> > >
> > >  > >  Weren't all the platters working?
> > >
> > >  > uh, what's a platter?
> > >
> > >  Before your time.
> > >
> > >  FoFP
>
> > o.k. I believe you, but when was before my time, and what's a platter?
> > (unless it's of course something simple like the thing you get for
dinner or
> > something...)
>
> Hard disks used to be composed of a number of layers known as "platters"
> which were read independently by multiple heads. Hie thee to a tech
> museum and have a look. Or pop into my office. I have one under the desk
> here.
>
> FoFP