OFF: Mikey looks into silicon heaven

[Paul Mather]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, M Holmes wrote:

=> 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.

Hard disks are still like that.  Take a screwdriver to one if you don't
believe me. :-)  You are probably thinking of the ol' removable hard
disks, wherein you would load a large, bulky disk pack into your equally
large, bulky, noisy drive unit to get a pitifully small amount of disk
space by today's standards.  They're good for working the upper body,
though. :-)

Someone made me a wall clock made out of a disk platter out of a unit
that'd suffered a head crash.  The platter even cooperated to the point
of having the surface gouging roughly outside where the clock numerals
go, making a nice border.

Yes, I know: geek chic. :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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