12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
10:45 a.m.
On 4/12/24 10:28, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Isn't that the IBM 2321 Data Cell drive?
Same idea, but I recall the cabinets being lower to the floor and the
media being more rigid than the 2321 noodles. Then again, it's been the
better part of 50 years, and it could well have been a 2321.
Memory rot sucks.
Having one's files "photostored" at LLL
was a chancy proposition. There
were bootleg programs to access every file for a user, just to keep them
from being consigned to the photostore.
It was chancy at LBL as well. The mechanical handling of the 1360
photostore cells was something that would have defied the imagination of
Rube Goldberg, and chips routinely ended up in places where they didn't
belong (although they did make pretty cool bookmarks for my teenage self).
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