On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Mr. Donzelli mentioned:
> Quite a few years ago, I scrapped out a big drive that had an arm
> with very fine brushes that would sweep the platters just after the
> thing came to speed.
DEC RP04s (Sperry drives, IIRC) had that as a feature. It was later
found that the brushes did more damage than good, and the brushes were
subsequently all tied back with wire-ties as per an ECO.
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Received on Sat Nov 15 1997 - 17:32:20 GMT