In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/08/2007
at 10:43 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>in the above you can see "bin" closeup ... "BB" selection could
>rotate the whole cylinder to place correct "bin" under the
>read/write heads ... rotation somewhat would reminded me of washing
>machine.
Not quite; it rotated it to place the correct cell under the
extraction mechanism, which selected the addressed strip and wrapped
it around a drum. Then it moved the R/W head to the proper track.
--
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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