guest@vu-vlsi.UUCP (visitors) (08/05/87)
In article <5776@ut-ngp.UUCP> ayac071@ngp.UUCP (Bill Douglass) writes: >In article <1246@killer.UUCP> robertl@killer.UUCP (Robert Lord) writes: >>I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said he worked for a >>Company called Q-1 which had made a disk controler which would calculate >>the distance that it had to jump to get to the track it needed to get to >>(make sence so far?) and then would put the head into hyperspace to jump to >>that track. It usually came within 1 or 2 tracks of where it wanted to >>be, so it just had to jump a track or 2. It was programed to expect errors >>on the way there though....2 questions: > >I would be wary of such a device if I were you. I had one earlier, but didn't >like it. Seems that the head would jump to hyperspace, then reappear at the >correct track, but at the wrong time. Sometimes it would read data I had erased >days ago, but occassionally it would read code I hadn't even written yet (I >think nothing is worse than to see examples of code you have yet to write. I >still shutter to think about it!) > >Anyway, until they fix the problem with time-space relativity, I wouldn't >recommend these babys to anyone. > I had a similar device and had also experienced problems with my data and the space-time continuum. In fact, once the controller goofed and it was possible for me to read the finished version of a paper I was writing--a real time-saver! Errors like these kept happening and I kept bugging the manufacturer to send a replacement. When it arrived, it had the same problems that the other one had. I bugged them some more, and they sent a third controller. This one worked fine until one day something happend to make the head crash when it was in hyperspace, and a Klingon battle cruiser materialzed inside my computer and promptly fired a photon torpedo at the motherboard--completely destroying it. (luckily, this was covered by my computer insurance policy). After replacing the motherboard (and transporting a few tribbles onto the Klingon vessel so that they would leave) I tried to use Norton's Utilities and chkdsk to recover what I could from the drive when it zoomed away at warp 10 (or so) after another crash. I guess any more followups should go to talk.bizarre ============================================================================== | Mark Schaffer | BITNET: 164485913@vuvaxcom | | Villanova University | UUCP: ...{ihnp4!psuvax1,burdvax,cbmvax,pyrnj,bpa} | | (Go Wildcats!) | !vu-vlsi!excalibur!164485913 | ============================================================================== please respond/reply to the above addresses and not to guest@vu-vlsi.UUCP