IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

3380's were a product of the 80's. There were several different flavors...the originals came out in the early 80's. They were known as A0's or AA's. or AD's. They were 'single density'...each hda had two addressable actuators (one coming out each side)...each actuator addressed about 600MB of storage. They later came out with AE's which were double density...then J's and K's which were trible density. Did you happen to grab the magnets from the cabinets? VERY powerful permanent magnets indeed! (very heavy too). I have a 3380 HDA I saved from my mainframe days...had a MAJOR headcrash....when I opened up the top to look, the head that crashed was vaporized! -Bob At 08:59 PM 3/18/2001 -0500, you wrote: > Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM >3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with >its >cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of >the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external >1.5 >HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs,