In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 12/18/2006
at 11:20 AM, "Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hmmmm. DASD operating on a radix of 10 instead of 2.
>I hope M/S doesn't patent that concept.
Since the trend seems to be to patent prior art, I would expect it.
The original disk drives were addressed in decimal. I don't recall
what was on the original 305 RAMAC, but the version for the 650 had
100 tracks on each of 100 surfaces.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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