14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
10:33 a.m.
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