7 Dec
2020
7 Dec
'20
7:07 p.m.
On 12/07/2020 03:45 PM, Tom Owad via cctalk wrote:
I have a Bryant platter on the wall of my office, but
I?m
not old enough to have seen it operational. 39? diameter,
1/4? thick, made of magnesium. It came out of Collins
Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, IA.
I have a 30" platter from an old accounting
machine. I
think it had 64 fixed heads. I did some experiments with it
but decided the data capacity was so low that it was not
worth spending time trying to cobble up a controller. it is
possible the data rate could be increased quite a bit, but
maybe the heads flew so high, or had such wide gaps that it
couldn't be pushed.
Jon