In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/05/2007
at 08:34 AM, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Looks a little like the old 2302 fixed disk drive.
Superficially, but if you look closely you'll see that while the 2302 has
the comb of R/W arms that you're used to, the RAMAC had an arm that moved
both horizontally and vertically. I don't know whether it had three
independent arms[1] or only one.
[1] The version of the disk used on the 650 did.
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