Help resurrect my Xerox Alto
Tony Duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 15 13:14:00 CDT 2010
>
> Probably not too useful a remark, but I remember from years ago when we had
> some Xerox Altos at the Stanford computer science department that the disk
> drives were very prone to head crashes. We were instructed to never attempt
I am suprised... These drives are similar technology and bit density to
the DEC RK05, and presumably have a similar head flying height. My
experience of RK05s is that they don't crash that often, and when they do
the heads are not always destroyed.
-tony
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