Re: What is a disk arm?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That seemed to be common fault with IBM. The power switch on the S/36 
too was exactly the height of my Boss' 4 yr old, same result: SILENCE!


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On 6/13/2013 8:21 PM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

> Well, it's been a few years, James, so I could be misremembering.  Now that
> I think about it (always a bad sign), I think it was 3344.  Unlike the
> 5445s, it was hermetically sealed; once it was put into the disk drive, you
> could see it get "sucked in" and the connectors on the back melded into the
> connectors in the drive's mechanism.
>
> While the disk itself was kinda heavy and cumbersome, physically it wasn't
> very big, but the drive unit was about the size of a washing machine.  Boss'
> sun was in one Saturday while we were running some tests.  Sonofabitch  if
> the power switch on those drives weren't at the same height as a
> 4-year-old's eyeballs!  Whee!
>
> Jerry C. Adams
> IBM i Programmer/Analyst
> It's like what Yogi said - What did Yogi say? -George Bell, Chicago White
> Sox