13 Nov
1998
13 Nov
'98
11:02 a.m.
At 04:47 PM 11/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
"I think it is coming from over there." says the SP who is pointing to the
3350 disk farm. The "farm" has fifteen 3350 DASD units in racks of three to
a rack. These 3350s (perhaps all 3350s are like this) were on rack slides
and when you pressed "unload" they would spin down, slide out, and the top
would open like the trunk on a '71 Pontiac Bonneville.
Are you sure those were 3350s? I doubt it. 3350's were not removable drives,
they were Winchester drives - media fixed in place.
I suspect they were 3330's, which did operate in the way you mention.
300MB each.
I too once came in to a room shortly after a 3330 disk head crash. The IBM FE
was peeling the adhesive label out of the works. Some idiot had used a
tape label
to label a 3330 disk pack.
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Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection
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