Worked a lot with DEC RP-07 drives (washing machine). Believe they were seven platter, and when a head "crashed" it generally acted like pin-ball and took out all of them. The tops of ours were light smoke color so you could watch the "excitement" of all the heads and various parts bouncing around with little you could do about it until the drive stopped spinning (the top would not open, probably a good thing)...
-- Larry Smith [email protected] On Mon October 29 2018 11:06, castarritt wrote: > What those be for a 5.25' and 3.5' drives, respectively? Unfortunately, I > wasn't alive for the days of washing machine sized drives. I guess when a > computer "crashed" back then, things were a bit more kinetic. > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:02 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > > So the first pic showed disks? I mistook it for tape reels. That is > > humongous. > > > > > > On 10/29/2018 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: > > > > WOW! I had to take a step backwards LOL > > I remember the old Disks and the machines that ran them. > > > > > > On 10/29/18 9:55 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
