In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/03/2005
at 08:58 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I cannot find any IBM technical publication describing the 2305, but
>it was called a drum by everyone I knew
ObAbrahamLincoln I'm aware of that. That doesn't make it one.
>Where do we go for the most official nomenclature?
GA26-1589-4, Reference Manual for I BM 2835 Storage Control and IBM
2305 Storage Module, p. 1, says
The storage module is a fixed head disk drive module
Of course, the front of the enclosure is glass, so you just need to
look at it to see that it is a disk drive.
>as opposed to a moving head storage device (usually called disks)
You mean linke the UNIVAC FastRand[1]? ;-)
>Having read/write heads fixed over each track makes it a drum.
No.
>It looked like a drum,
In the same way that a piper cub looked like a submarine.
>walked like a drum,
No.
>and quacked like a drum.
And likewise no.
[1] A moving head drum.
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