12 Jul
2026
12 Jul
'26
11:29 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2026, Michael Thompson wrote:
And Burroughs, too. They also built large fixed-head disk drives for OEMs
(e.g. Telefunken TSP 500)
Christian
On Jul 9,
2026, at 4:06?AM, Mark Linimon via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
There were a number of manufacturers early on. Rice University
may have had a Bryant (sp?) drive at one time. When I arrived
in 1973 there was a spare platter collecting dust in a storage
area.
Bryant made early drives for CDC, the 6603 if I remember right. Those
have quite large platters.