> OK, you are referring to Seymours alleged drum tearing loose on a navy ship. > > Mea Culpa. I read this as you disputing that the Navy installed FirstRand 1 > on its ships.
Just a misunderstand, pretty much. > There are a references to this model being a dancing behemoth, and that the > counter-rotating drum resolved this. Yes, I can see that one of these not bolted to the floor - any floor - would start walking around on its own. It would not even need help (like disk drive races, as done university students). > There are a few, unsubstantiated references to failures sending the drum > through a wall(s). They make for good stories. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
