eBay alert: TI 980B mini and a HUGE IBM drive

From: Stan Sieler <ss_at_allegro.com>
Date: Fri May 4 13:50:29 2001

Re:
> on the panel]. The disk drive is a pull from a 3380E IBM drive cabinet
> and is by far and away the largest I've ever seen .. probably 130+
> pounds.

For weight-per-byte, the winner has to be the dual 8" floppy disk
drive for the IBM 5110 / 5120 (possibly used in other IBM computers).
It's a bit larger than a 2-drawer file cabinet, and about 100 to 150 pounds...
all electronics just for the dual 8" floppy drives! A year or so later,
IBM had shrunk the electronics so they and the drives fit into a 14"/14"/14"
cube, roughly.


Stan Sieler sieler_at_allegro.com
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Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 13:50:29 BST