Another bargain for the Aldi fans

Perhaps Apple should have been sued as they didn't 'invent' it either.

Yes.

Hey guys, I think someone must have been reading this thread:

Hint. Bernoulli is not a manufacturer of coffee makers.

You had better read it all again then. You said it wasn't true when I said yes it would damage the disk to the line above that reads "damaged - by yanking the power cord when its active with the heads against the platters" and then ignored the bit where I said disk don't work like that. Sounds like you don't think heads and platters being in contact while active is a problem so you are wrong. Then instead of accepting that you were wrong you say I don't know how they work which is pretty obviously also untrue. So admit to yourself that you are jumping up the wrong tree and we can stop this waste of time here.

If you think I am wrong then you don't know how they work. I will give you a clue; the heads fly above the platter while the disk is active.. if they touch the platter while active you will find little bits of oxide (or metal sputtering if its a glass platter) all over the drive. Doesn't do them much good and they die.

Pity you won't get this as you kill filed me last time you were wrong.

That is correct or at least it is on the ones we use these days. I have used other types where the head didn't fly but the wear was incredible. I have even seen designs for one where it used a fixed head but a floppy disk spinning fast and the disk itself bent and flew over the heads.

I used to have a ~14" platter with grooves in it so deep you could feel them (it got lost in a move). That was in the days you could get a whole 5 megabytes on a platter that size. The heads flew high enough to see light and shadow under them if you ran them with the covers off. It was quite dangerous to run them without the cover due to their size but good fun. We had some drum drives which were bigger and faster as they had a head per track.. some programmers would arrange their code so that it appeared under the head just as it rotated around to get a bit of extra speed.

Or even 'been sued'

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george

Gee! Who would have known??

You were the one sho stated that it was "technically true" that a disk can be active with it's heads against the platters.

Get a clue, you moron.

No I did not.

You are the one behaving like one so I might as well give up and you can go and find someone to argue about Macs with.

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While what you say is technically true

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Get a clue, you moron.

"but disks don't work like that"

Learn to read moron.

Indeed, the heads are not in contact with the platter which was how you imagined they worked.

Still being a moron and trying to worm out of your mistake. Well I am bored so I will stop here but don't think you are correct because I ignore you from here, I just don't think you are worth it.

You are, but one day you may wise up.

Others have also pulled you up on your mistake.

There were earlier systems that used the idea of file types. Much earlier.

You now what one means.

ALMOST in contact, and probably will be shortly IF the power cord is yanked out.