God now I do feel old, Does anyone remember the old floppy disk drives that
looked like a stack of 45 rpm records Held about 1 meg of data, and sounded
like a scram jet taking off when the spun up. (god help you if the case it
was in wasn't bolted down when it started to do a seek ... it would run
across the floor in a heartbeat)
At 07:40 PM 7/23/00, you wrote:
>That depends on what your definition of "old" is,
>I'm 31 but alot of people keep guessing the wrong age.
>How old are you?
>
>These discs might have been a little newer than the
>ones you dealt with, these had a lift handle to take
>the main cover off, and you had to raise a lid
>and let them down into this round place, they
>were approx 10-20 megs I think.
>
>On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > I used DEC equipment, but you have the right idea.
> >
> > 10MB interchangeable cartridges that could take up to a half-hour to
> intialise if something wasn't happy.
> >
> > Big turn-handles on top of the case, and you'd have to slide out a
> drawer to drop them in to the cabinet.
> >
> > They collected an s-load of dirt and had to be hand-cleaned.
> >
> > The read-write heads were so large you could see every detail of their
> design. Now-a-days we use SEM technology to test quality and measure
> deviations in design geometry on the read-write heads.
> >
> > Am I old?
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
> >
> >
> > > Were those pizza sized discs a type of hard cartridge
> > > with the name "Nashua" stamped on the side?
> > >
> > > And did they have a clean function in which an arm
> > > came out over the installed disc with the words
> > > "turn slowly" stamped on the arm?
> > >
> > > Hehehe my dad used to have an old Century 2100
> > > something or other, might not be the right name,
> > > I think it was an "NCR" type of system.
> > >
> >
> >
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