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Well, if IBM's new DASD architecture were manufactured in the same
manner as previous DASD devices, you would have 278,921,216 tracks
on each surface. What diameter do you think such platters would be?
How long would it take the access arm to traverse the radius?
How much power would it take to spin them fast enough to be usable? :-)
-jc-
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Got any spare 6-71 Deisels laying around? ;-) Sounds like a new customer
base for Detroit Deisel or EMD.
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Rick
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