I remember encountering them mostly as replacements
for the terrible 821
drives, which had the appearance of an 808, but substantially increased
capacity. I don't think any 821s were ever installed at a customer's
site, however--I saw the lot of them that we had falling to the CE
sledgehammer.
They were replaced by banks of 844s--lots of them. I think one site had
well over 100 installed, all hooked together with a MAC on at least 2
Cyber 74s.
--Chuck
Wow, more than hundred of these CDC drives??? This must have been a massive
installation! I didn't know so many disk drives could be combined with
Cyber systems. Thanks for the insights!
I was already amazed by pictures provided by the University of Auckland:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/MagneticDataStorag…
It doesn't say, though, where this picture was taken.
Kind regards,
Pierre
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