Seeing the disk IO animation reminded me of Melvin Kaye[0]: Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky Flexowriter required a delay betw

Seeing the disk IO animation reminded me of Melvin Kaye[0]: Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky Flexowriter required a delay between output characters to work right. He just located instructions on the drum so each successive one was just past the read head when it was needed; the drum had to execute another complete revolution to find the next instruction. [0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs354/Fall2008/notes/The_Story_of_Mel.html https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs354/Fall2008/notes/The...