Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!watmath!watnot!watmum!smvorkoetter From: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Many Questions/ some answers Message-ID: <745@watmum.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 10:36:51 EST Article-I.D.: watmum.745 Posted: Fri Dec 19 10:36:51 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 06:39:33 EST References: <650@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 7 In article <650@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: >... Most interesting of the lot will be a >drive which writes 8 bits STRAIGHT DOWN THROUGH THE MEDIA, rather than >in a pattern across it as has always been the case heretofore. Not quite. It writes EACH bit through the media, not flat on the surface as before. The individual bits are still strung out serially.