13 Apr
2024
13 Apr
'24
5:19 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 9:45 AM Christian Kennedy via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
While on the topic of odd IBM mass storage systems,
does anyone recall
an IBM system that used rotating carousels holding sheets of magnetic
material? The carousel would rotate to position the selected sheet into
the read/write station, where it would be moved up and down relative to
the multiple fixed heads, a weird linear riff on a fixed head disk.
Nowhere near as cool, . . .
About 30 years ago?
(When libraries would DEDICATE a PC for each CDROM that they had)
Keith Hensen made a device consisting of a carousel holding 240
CD/CD-ROM/DVDs. It had a name something like "Qubik"?
It was in a square box with a smoked plexiglass cover, with a drive at
each corner. They were stackable.
The drives were SCSI, the carousel controls were RS232.
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