"Chuck Stevens" <charles.stevens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>"Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> the sounds of 2321 at boot/ipl was something like whirl, kerchunk,
>> kerchunk, whirl, .... as it went thru reading volsers.
> [...] When a given strip was desired, two
>sets of fingers came down and pulled the ones on either side of it away,
>leaving the selected strip sticking up. The read/write drum had a pair
of
>fingers on its outer surface, and it was rotated such that the fingers
came
>down and grabbed the strip. Then the drum reversed direction and spun
for
>the read/write process. When reading and writing was done, the drum
simply
>stopped and reversed direction with the idea that it would throw the
strip
>back into the same slot whence it came. Sometimes it actually worked.
When
>it did, the fingers on the drum released the strip and were retracted
back
>into the surface of the read/write drum.
Thus the nickname for the 2321 of "noodle picker".
>When it didn't work, the strip, with your precious data on it, was almost
>always as neatly pleated as one could hope for. There's a good
possibility
>that some of the fingers got bent in this process as well, because the
>pleating resulted from the strip landing on the selection fingers instead
of
>in the hole the selection fingers were trying to maintain.
Thus the nickname for the 2321 of "noodle stuffer".
Joe Morris
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