*** Ideas needed for developing interactive displays....

[ed sharpe]

Pete:  are we going to actually spin this drive up after bereakeing the seal
on it?  I thought  bad things would happen.......  ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.u-net.com>
To: "ed sharpe" <esharpe at uswest.net>; "General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: *** Ideas needed for developing interactive displays....


> On Sep 7 2004,  8:32, ed sharpe wrote:
> > yes....  the visual of seeing the heads seek in and out....  I
> suppose you
> > could pared the heads so they do not land and  do not even hardly
> spin the
> > thing up just make the heads seek......
>
> The large Fujitsu SMD drives (smaller capacity than an Eagle, but about
> the same physical size, 14" platters) have perspex HDA covers, and you
> can see the heads moving quite well.  I have an M2284 like that.
>
> Of course, you can do it with a 5.25" winchester or even a 3.5" one as
> well, if it's the type that has a flat top cover (note that some
> Seagate 3.5" drives have a flat *baseplate* to which all the gubbins
> are mounted -- it looks like just a cover, but it isn't).  Just take
> off the cover, and use it as a template to cut out and drill a perspex
> replacement.  Or even cover it with clingwrap (saran wrap, I think you
> colonists call it), but keep people's fingers away from it.
>
> -- 
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>