14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
1:18 p.m.
Yes. Or an optical strip changer, which is what one of the notes on the Talk page refers
to. But if so, the main page text is badly misleading.
paul
On Oct 14, 2013, at 3:52 PM, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
It might have been a jukebox type system with more
traditional
media.
Dwight
Subject: Re: 1Tbit 'laser optical recording
medium'
From: paulkoning at comcast.net
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:30:40 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sounds a bit like the write-once optical disk cartridge disk DEC made at one time (forgot
the model number). But a terabit (128 GB) seems like an implausibly high storage density
for an early 1970s storage device. That's almost 3 orders of magnitude larger than
disk drive densities of that time, not even considering the fact that it says "a
disk" while dense disk drives at the time had perhaps 10 platters.
The obvious conclusion is {{citation needed}} .
paul
On Oct 14, 2013, at 1:33 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
While reading the wikipedia article on the ILLIAC IV there's a curious
excerpt relating to the disk media:
"They also provided a Burroughs B6500 mainframe to act as a front-end
controller. Connected to the B6500 was a laser optical recording medium, a
write-once system that stored up to 1 Tbit on a plastic disk covered with
a thin metal film."
Anyone know what this device was?
Cheers;
- JP
Hampton, Iowa