Recounting th e"good olde days"???

[Guy Werry]

Sadly, no photos or anything of those, but I do remember the 404 Mb HP
drives from the mid-80s which we referred to as the "Washing Machines"
because they were about the size of a short washing machine and under
certain circumstances they would shake and rumble very much in the fashion
of one's washing machine during the spin dry cycle!

(They also cost about $40k CDN ... now we're buying USED 9GIG Unix drives
for about $2k CDN)!!

Guy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sheehan [mailto:sheerich@isu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:33 PM
To: Heasman, David
Cc: 'powerh-l@lists.sowder.com'
Subject: Re: Recounting th e"good olde days"???


Does anyone have any pic's and/or old literature for these drums?

Sounds pretty interesting.  I have a picture in my mind of an old wax 
cylinder record - just lots bigger.  (Yes these were also way before my 
time.)


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Richard Sheehan
IT Programmer Analyst
208-282-4427
Student Services, College of Technology
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID  83209-8380



Heasman, David wrote:

>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* John Stires [mailto:pencarver@sbcglobal.net]
>      >  Speaking of a  Sperry Rand Univac 1110, does anybody remember
>     the Drum stoarge that went with it?    
>>  It was about he size of a small car.  It was    very fast, for
>     its day, but help less data than the little PDA I now carry in my
>     pocket.  
>      
>       Yes Univac 1100s were used in the UK for airline reservations
>     because of fast file transfer to drum.
>     There's an apocryphal tale of one slipping its mountings and
>     whizzing out of the first-storey window
>     of the BP Headquarters in London in 1969. It weighed about a ton
>     and revolved at 5000+ r.p.m.
>      
>
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