>Well the RS11 with no suffix is just the controller but since yours has a
>motor and a "W" serial number it sounds like one of the fixed head disks
>for the RF11. I'm guessing that the tube would connect to the air
>filtration system. I've not had much luck locating a picture for
>comparison. I'll bet you any amount of money if you were to open it you
>would find a single platter attached to that motor inside the housing
>and a pair of read/write heads.
^^^^^^
*A* pair? It's a fixed head disk of 64 tracks, so I'd expect 64 such heads!
RS03: 64 tracks, 64 sectors/track, 64 words (128 bytes) per sector.
RS04: 64 tracks, 64 sectors/track, 128 words (256 bytes) per sector.
An RS03 actually has 4 spare tracks and a timing track, while the RS04
has 8 spare tracks and a timing track, with (of course) a set of heads for
each track.
And, of course, a zero millisecond seek time.
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Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 08:01:41 BST