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

[ed sharpe]

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......
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David V. Corbin" <dvcorbin at optonline.net>
To: "'ed sharpe'" <esharpe at uswest.net>; "'General Discussion: On-Topic and 
Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: RE: *** Ideas needed for developing interactive displays....


>>>> Jules, yes a large hard drive seeing would  be  very
>>>> interesting.  <snip> ....  the size of a washing machine but
>>>> all glassed in top...  lots of power lots of heat......
>
> While I have not been following every message in this thread..It seems 
> like
> a replica might be the best way to go. Could definitely "play some games" 
> to
> make it more reliabile, lower-power, etc. Whould stilll give the look and
> feed of the classic drives [oh how I remember a row of RP-06's spinning
> away!]
>
>
>