> On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:30 AM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> Well, other than the Model I (CADET) typewriter acting as if it were going to
> fly apart at any time, the 1311 disk drive was fun to watch.
Especially if you didn't have the "direct seek" option. I had a one-card
program that would do for (i=0; i<100; i++) seek_cylinder(i). That doesn't
step track to track as you would expect; instead, it goes from track n to 0 to
n+1, resulting in progressively wilder and slower seeks as n increases.
paul
