4 Jun
2023
4 Jun
'23
10:14 p.m.
Hello Lee,
thanks for confirming this! To my knowledge, that would have been the only place
world-wide in very recent past where 300MB drives based on disk packs would still (or
again) be operational and actually be used!
Simply amazing - and so unfortunate that it's closed!
Greetings,
Pierre
Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2023 um 19:52:38 MESZ hat Lee Courtney <leec2124(a)gmail.com>
Folgendes geschrieben:
Hi Pierre,
Yes, when LCM was open the Sigma-9 and the connected drives were up and operational, I
can't remember what OS the system was running. Maybe CP-V or UTS?
Lee
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:51 PM P Gebhardt via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
I just came across pictures on the LCM website about their SDS Sigma installation there.
On the pictures, one can see 10-platter disk packs in the corner and stored on the disk
drives.
Did the LCM ever had these in operation, either for data retrieval or even demo
purposes?
I know of the Jim Austin Computer museum where they fixed a CDC 9766 drive but it
suffered
a head crash after a few hours according to their description which led to giving up the
operation
of these drives.
Greetings,
Pierre
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