Hi Jules,
To my knowledge the largest hard drive platter was 24". IBM the inventor may have produced
an experimental platter of ~1 m as a demonstration project to management and maybe these platters
were 'sold' or distributed to IBM employees?
Murray--
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> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:55:18 +0000 (GMT)
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jules=20Richardson?=
> <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: large disk platters?
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> I just randomly remembered the other day that when I was at uni one of the
> computing lecturers one day rolled out an enormous disk platter to demonstrate
> how hard disk technology has changed over the years.
>
> The platter was pretty huge - around 1m in diameter. Any ideas as to what
> system it may have come from?
>
> Im just curious really - I've not seen much really old hardware up close, but
> the impression I got from the pictures I've seen is that drive technology
> didn't typically use platters *that* large.
>
> (and hell, this beats talking about the war :)
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
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Received on Thu Feb 20 2003 - 16:31:00 GMT