The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-mai,alt.folkore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (, IBM Mainframe Discussion List) writes: > Around mid-1999 EMC signed a multi-$billion contract to buy a HUGE number of > little disks from IBM over a period of several years. So IBM was making > disks then. And I think that contract expired about half a decade ago. san jose plant site (disk unit) now belongs to hitachi. most recent, hitachi talking about selling off the unit. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#33 Hitachi, Silver Lake in talks about hard drives, sources say a few other references http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#9 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#39 DASD history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#21 IBM up for grabs? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#18 RAMAC 305(?) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#14 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#15 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#20 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
