Picture up (RE: Microsci HAVAC)

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Mon Oct 12 18:08:18 1998

Mine was more like the mechanism of either a TRS-80 drive, or an IBM Tandon
drive. The heads were connected to a horizontal stepper by a thin metal
sheet.
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         -Jason
(roblwill_at_usaor.net)
   ICQ#-1730318

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> From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Picture up (RE: Microsci HAVAC)
> Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 4:00 PM
>
> > BTW: I used to have a Disk II, and the heads were positioned by a
stepper
> > motor, and didn't have any "spiral-grooved disc" anywhere in the entire
> > unit.
>
> Odd... I've got a number of Disk II's here, and every one has a stepper
> motor under the chassis with a disk on the spindle of it above the
> chassis. There's a spiral groove in the disk and a little lug on the head

> assembly that fits into the groove. The stepper motor turns the disk and
> thus moves the heads.
>
> Maybe there are several versions of the Disk II
>
> -tony
Received on Mon Oct 12 1998 - 18:08:18 BST