[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

[David]

The comments in the rp06 walking across the floor reminds me of a time when I was installing netnews at a very new company and as the data transferred from the tape (we didn’t have a modem yet, that was to happen in a week or so) to the disk the disk got into a walking state. I was standing with my foot against the front of the drive to keep it from moving when a friend walked into the machine room and asked what I was doing. I said ‘keeping it all together’ and he asked about my foot. I moved it, the disk walked out a small amount and I replace my foot. He laughed and walked away. About 15 or 20 minutes later it was all back to ‘normal’ and I never had another problem with it.

	David

> On Jan 2, 2016, at 1:31 PM, tuhs-request at minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
> 
> several
> RP06 (200MB) removable disks (for a picture and description, see
> 
> 	 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/rp06.html