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Did you reach out to my friend Jason?
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Having fun
I was working Emergency Response Facility design in 79-80 after TMI.
DEC wouldn't sell to the nuc industry so we were doing Prime's. Wrote
my own networking code on top of their low level device drivers on huge
coax -LMR400- connections. M
I think that large disk is a "Bryant Computer Products division of
Ex-Cell-O, 1 meter platter ".
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From: Robert Andrews
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 12:46 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Having fun
I was working Emergency Response Facility de
I was working Emergency Response Facility design in 79-80 after TMI.
DEC wouldn't sell to the nuc industry so we were doing Prime's. Wrote
my own networking code on top of their low level device drivers on huge
coax -LMR400- connections. My code, frankly sucked, but getting a 500K
throughpu
The largest one in the photo is about 36” in diameter.
Probably an ESS type of phone switch drive. They were mounted on edge in a
super wide rack.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Having fun
That big platter on the left
That big platter on the left looks almost like the Burroughs
(IIRC) garage-style hard drive. The ones I remember had 4 platters
like that for a total of ~~ 5 MB (~~ 1.25 MB per platter). Each
"garage" was about 1' wide, and the units I saw bolted 4 or 5
garages to
We started Comsearch on a Pr1me 300 in 1977 and moved up to a 750 by the mid
80s before moving on to Unix boxes.. and yes, the computers rooms were
freezing.
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What I came to see was the Bombe and the Colossus machines.
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Having fun
So the first pic showed disks? I mistook it for tape reels. That is humongous.
On 10/29/2018 11:07 AM, Dave wrote
We used the Prime computer systems, never had a head crash with more
than just a lot of substrate scraped off, but remember getting a lot of
colds as a result of computer rooms at 65 degrees then going outside
into 85 degree weather...
On 10/29/18 9:13 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
Worked a lot with
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
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 wrote:
> So the first pic showed disks
Washing machine disc drives... reach in and untwist a stack of disks..
10Mbytes?
On 10/29/18 9:00 AM, Adam Moffett 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
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:
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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:
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