would be nice even to have a non working one to display in the museum here!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:35 PM
Subject: working magnetic drum stores?
>
> Just out of curiousity, does anyone still have a working drum storage
> device? wondering if any working examples have survived...
>
> I have a half-assed plan to try and find one from somewhere at some
> point. We have a Sperry unit that's way beyond repair, and don't have
> anything other than the drum assembly itself anyway (the bearings still
> seem good though so I might see if it can be coaxed into spinning) - but
> a working demonstration would be great hooked up to one of the 1960's
> machines.
>
> I gather that telphone exchanges used to use them here in the UK so
> maybe there are still a few lurking in private hands as they must have
> been reasonably common at one point. The flipside of course being that
> they're pretty bulky devices in themselves, and with the low reliability
> they've maybe all gone to scrap years ago (unlike other peripherals of
> the area which survived).
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 25 2004 - 23:43:31 GMT