On 21 Apr at 12:45, Will Eckard of 1:208/200 wrote to Rick Collins:
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WE> I'll be sending you a copy of the f*@% virus. You can look at the damn
WE> thing and eat your words. If you can't tell I don't LIKE BEING CALLED A
WE> LIAR!!!!! 
You need to take a chill pill dude. 
He didn't call you a liar. Didn't even insinuate it.
Take your ego to the toilet and flush it. Go get a new one. Get a *good* one. 
They ain't cheap.
WE> I take viruses very seriously. I use to write them. I can send
WE> you a few if you want!!!!! And the ones that I've wrote aren't very
WE> nice.....
I don't care if you invented the things ! What you were told was correct. 
There are NO pins or whatever in a Hard drive that can contact the disk 
surface.
The =original= drive was a cylinder with a magnetic head =in contact= with 
the drum. The drum revolved and the head went up and down. Hence the 
terminology of "cylinders".
Modern drives "float" the heads a few microns above the surface of the disc. 
The distance is determined by how many gas molecules are "captured" by the 
disk surface (by friction) whilst it is rotated, and can be "squeezed" 
between the head and the disk surface.
You would be amazed at how hard it is to get the surfaces to touch when the 
disk is operating at normal speed. In aircraft, its called the "ground 
effect" and its results are dramatic.
Now, leave your ego at the door and reply with some decorum please.
Chris Maddock
chrism@softtech.brisnet.org.au
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