Because of its size it will be tempting to mount it as the face of a clock,
though. Without the rest of the hardware to make it work (which it probably
didn't to all that well anyway) it isn't that interesting as a museum piece.
It might as well stay where it is.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Kennedy <chris_at_mainecoon.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Likely museum piece
>Mike Ford wrote:
>
>> I mentioned it once before, but there is a surplus guy down here in Socal
>> with a 42 inch platter out of a Bryant hard drive hanging on his wall. I
>> suspect not that high of an offer from a formal institution would pry it
>> loose. Isn't this something that belongs in a museum?
>
>
>Bryant disk? Wasn't that the water cooled thing with the platters mounted
>in the vertical plane (that is, 90 degrees to what we're generally used
to)?
>Last time I saw one of those it was being used as a sort of swap drive
>hanging off a customer built channel controller on a CDC6600 at LBL,
>must have been 1976. It was a relic even then.
>
>Seems like the platter belongs almost anywhere else other than on the
>wall of some surplus shop...
>
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