RE: [cobalt-users] apology... i think...

["Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:35:32 -0800, Jeff Lasman
> <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> :>Phil Beynon wrote:
> :>
> :>> The only system I've ever seen where that sort of thing could
> happen "by
> :>> itself" was on an old Altos Xenix box where it simply ran out
> of inodes and
> :>> went off and started from one again thus splatting all the root files.
> :>
> :>You bring back a lot of memories, Phil.
> :>
> :>A friend of mine ran Altos systems; I remember going to one of their
> :>early meetings somewhere between 1976 and 1979.  I ran Xenix on TRS-80
> :>Model II systems myself <smile>.  Multi-user at 8mhz, 128 megabytes
> :>total memory.  Those were the days.
> :>
> :>Jeff
>
> Especially the 8" disk drives.

Shugart SA800 - mains motor to spin the diskette...... never got many jams!
I actually chucked away a brand new boxed one of those just recently -
really couldn't see much call for spares nowadays!
We had a diag routine that did a head solenoid (also mains!) unload / load /
seek to next track routine on those - get that running on both drives at the
same time and the customers generally panicked, it was like a Gatling gun
going off!

Phil

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