I tried to get, without success, one of the old 5mb disk packs from the decommissioned controller on our ancient HP Mass Spectrometer, they were copper disks about 16" in diameter in a big plastic case.
That was an interesting system. You could load an mass spec into the stack, then do boolean or RPN math on it with either functions or other mass spectra... On Apr 16, 2012, at 2:19 PM, M Christol wrote: > :-) > My sister has an old disk, about 12" with the damaged read arm thingie > hanging on a wall in her house. > Old tech as artwork, whatever.... > > On 4/16/12 4:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> My partner has one of those old memory waffles hanging on his wall. >> >>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Brian Lawson wrote: >>> >>>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/14/reg_picture_puzzler/> >>> The picture three is the front panel of a PDP-8, five is a PDP-10, the >>> tubes have to be either from ENIAC or Colossus, six is core memory (duh), >>> I'm pretty sure eleven is the printing head of a high-speed line printer. >>> >>> That's without cheating, the comment thread at the reg has a link to the >>> answers and better pix, including the backplane of a PDP-8... >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
