[ale] fun reading infoworld magazine from 9/11/1989

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi all,

The Security Now podcast just played a holiday episode where they 
presented a recorded presentation that Steve Gibson made in 1990.  It 
talked about the way hard drives worked then.  While some things have 
changed, much of the info is still valid.  He talked about a phenomenon 
called long term alignment drift, which apparently was the bane of hard 
drive designers.  I was googling around to see if it's still an issue, 
as I have an interest in HDD failure modes and trends.  I found this 
link to an infoworld magazine from 9/11/1989 at Google books.  You can 
read it online.  It's a real riot to go back and see what was happening 
23 years ago.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=hdd+long+term+alignment+drift&source=bl&ots=2FDSzuuwZ2&sig=z1D7eU3zUygMGlUpGxjbm-ysJxs&hl=en

Sincerely,

Ron

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