Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Mark Weaver]

Please! you have my undivided attention. Tell me more about the "good ole
days". I'm a mainframe student at a local college and I never tire of
hearing about the early days of the BIG mainframes and early PCs.


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Mark
  
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Deryk Barker wrote:

> Thus spake Charles Curley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [...]
> > I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
> > drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
> > which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
> > mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
> > card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern
> > moterhboards.
> 
> Those old fridge-sized drives we used on mainframes in the Good Old
> Days (tm) also had controllers which were in cabinets larger than the
> drives. 
> 
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