In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/02/2005
at 11:21 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Right; e.g. STK's 4305 was a SSD equivalent of an IBM 2305 drum.
There was no IBM 2305 drum; the 2305 was a disk drive. The drums were
2301 and 2303.
>By ancient I meant the fact that 2305s were being used in the
>late 1970s for paging.
Not just for paging; we had SYS1.SYSJOBQE there. Some shops had high
usage libraries there. Likewise Wylbur work files.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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