Main-frame hard drive (maybe) avaliable

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun Feb 9 20:05:01 2003

> ...the box was about three feet long, one foot tall, ... on front of the
box there were
> two or three buttons ..

Sounds alot like a Fujistu 8?" FSD/SMD. Used in the early Apollo 'personal'
workstations, although those suckers (the Apollo) probably weighed 500lbs
complete. The concept of what a personal workstation is has changed
somewhat
since then. This guy (the Fujitsu) was considered a size breakthrough in
~1980.
Mainframe disk drives were 5X bigger by weight.

John A.
Received on Sun Feb 09 2003 - 20:05:01 GMT