Recounting th e"good olde days"???

[Ken Langendock]

Ha thats a laugh. Anyone actually openned a UNIX
server? 

I pulled apart a IBM UNIX server after being told by
my UNIX guy the parts were all proprietory you can't
do anything with this machine.

What a pile of crap, they were either standard IDE
drives or basic SCSII drives. I replaced the small
drives with bigger ones I had lying around and
reinstalled the O/S. Works perfectly. The memory was
old as well....now you can pick that stuff up for
peanuts too.

BTW, I remember the "washing machines" as well. I went
into a service bureau once and thought I was in a
sears major appliance section.


--- Guy Werry <guy.werry@hbms.ca> wrote: 
> 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.)
> 
> 
> ---
> 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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> >
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