Your dream computer room.

From: Bill Sudbrink <bill_at_chipware.com>
Date: Thu Jun 29 14:26:11 2000

> > A vertical storage system with 3 foot deep by
> > 4 foot wide "shelves" mounted on a kind of chain
> > driven circular elevator. I got the idea from
> > some pictures of a car parking facility. The
> > shelf at the I/O position could slide onto a cart
> > which could then take it to a workstation where
> > it would lock in. I figure about 2 feet of
> > clearance between shelves and the whole system
> > being about 50 feet tall (or down into the floor)
> > so you could have 50 systems easily ready to use,
> > demo or work on.
>
> Sounds just like a White Data Systems Vertical
> Carousel... never got to work with one of those,
> but I wrote lots of code to move the WDS Horizontal
> Carousels back in the 80s...

Sigh... Never imagine that you've had an original idea.
Well, when I get rich, I won't have to build it from
scratch.
Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 14:26:11 BST