Bryan Pope wrote:
>
> And thusly Julius Sridhar spake:
> >
> > On 26 Jan 2002, Michael Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmmm, my VAX-11/730 weights MUCH more then me.
> >
> > My S/390's *hard disk* weighs *20 times* as much as me. 8-)
> >
>
> O!.. Ok.. Do not drop them on your foot.
>
> These aren't the ones that are over a foot wide in a clear plastic? case
> with a handle in the centre to carry or lock them in place?
>
> BrYan
Once long ago I had a IBM-2310 Disk storage unit ( single drive ).
Nothing like 250+ LB floppy capacity drive running off of 240 VAC.
With a 500,000 16 bit word capacity per removable media many aps
never used a file sytem but just wrote directly to the disk. Now days
1 Meg will not even boot a OS.:(
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Sat Jan 26 2002 - 17:00:39 GMT