Wayne Parham Messages: 18835 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
You're right that the disk drive cabinet would have been at least 250 pounds. Those multi-platter pack drives had huge transformers for the power supply and a linear motor that was 100 pounds, all by itself. And a fairly large support structure in the cabinet to support all that. So they were pretty meaty boxes.
Back in the day, I considered experimenting with using one of the linear motors from a Data General Zebra disk drive as a big subwoofer. But at 100 pounds, I just never "got around to it."
Linear motor that positions the heads (with shipping head lock in place)
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