13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
4:15 p.m.
On 13 Sep 2007 at 17:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Though this would be interesting. Just one of the
large boxes in the
picture, hold almost as much as a DVD does today. Just show how far we
have come.
Try about 3 3.5 DSHD floppies. A DVD is orders of magnitude larger.
It seems to me that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry once had
a model of one whose operation could be observed (i.e. much of the
box "skins" were stripped away so you could observe the head moving
up and down the stack.
Cheers,
Chuck