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Article #50Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter
From: Joe Cychosz
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 20:51
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 20:51
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In article <25833@shamash.cdc.com> rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan) writes: >I heard a 6603 story (possibly apocryphal) that at some site >the heads crashed and the motors kept on turning. Supposedly >the magnesium platters soon ignited and the equivalent of >"meltdown" occurred in the computer room. Livermore threatend to ignite there disk after it was decomissioned. I don't know if they ever did. Joe
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!cadlab.ecn.purdue.edu!3ksnn64 From: 3ksnn64@cadlab.ecn.purdue.edu (Joe Cychosz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter Keywords: ancient,relic Message-ID: <1990Sep14.205152.7216@ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 20:51:52 GMT References: <1990Sep11.211524.2956@ultra.com> <1990Sep14.040425.21330@ecn.purdue.edu> <25833@shamash.cdc.com> Sender: news@ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 10