4 May
2001
4 May
'01
6:50 a.m.
Re:
on the panel]. The disk drive is a pull from a 3380E
IBM drive cabinet
and is by far and away the largest I've ever seen .. probably 130+
pounds.
For weight-per-byte, the winner has to be the dual 8" floppy disk
drive for the IBM 5110 / 5120 (possibly used in other IBM computers).
It's a bit larger than a 2-drawer file cabinet, and about 100 to 150 pounds...
all electronics just for the dual 8" floppy drives! A year or so later,
IBM had shrunk the electronics so they and the drives fit into a
14"/14"/14"
cube, roughly.
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler