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Article #44Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter
From: Jitze Couperus
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 20:25
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 20:25
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I believe Steve Jay is right - the 6603 disk was bigger than 26 inches - I thought I heard 'em referred to as 1 metre disks... I first saw that particular peripheral attached to an RCA301 computer (early solid state - contemporaneous with IBM 1401) and this was in turn derived from a specialised military application referred to as "mobidic" which consisted of aforementioned RCA301 with a Bryant Excello mounted in back of a 5 ton truck - the name mobidic derives from "mobile disk drive". RCA got the contract and made a civilian version with a Cobol compiler which is where I came in... -- Jitze Couperus Control Data - Silicon Valley Operations jitze@u02.svl.cdc.com Voice (408) 496-4334 FAX (408) 496-4106
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!shamash!jitze From: jitze@u02.svl.cdc.com (Jitze Couperus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter Keywords: ancient,relic Message-ID: <25737@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 12 Sep 90 20:25:40 GMT References: <6536@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1990Sep11.034940.16212@ecn.purdue.edu> <1990Sep11.211524.2956@ultra.com> Sender: news@shamash.cdc.com Lines: 14