At 07:38 AM 6/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> standard (IIRC). Was the first computer to use variable speed disk drives
Okay, I dug up where I got that idea from (ACM/Computer Museum Computer
Bowl, 1994, Round 3, Toss up question #6):
"6. The Victor 9000 computer featured an innovative design in its disk
drives. What was unique about the disk drives?"
and the answer was:
"6. Variable speed"
So in between reading that, and now, "innovative" transmogrified into "first
of its kind". Sorry about that!
>That's how it gets 21 sectors on tracks 1 to 17, 20 sectors on tracks 18
>to 24, 18 sectors on tracks 24 to 30, and 17 sectors on tracks 31 to 35.
I thought the idea of variable speed drives was to have the same
number/sized sectors on each track? Perhaps I goofed there too...
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Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 13:29:38 BST