12 May
2013
12 May
'13
4:12 p.m.
On Sun, 12 May 2013, BE Arnold wrote:
Got them already. Those were easy. I've come to you guys for the difficult stuff. :)
I'd really like a 656/Hawk platter and head. I've the idea of gluing the platter
to the board then gluing 5 1/4", 3.5" & 2.5" platters to it. Showing
the decreasing physical size and increasing capacity.
I'm thinking the hard drive platters, floppies and paper will be the base display
panel.
Rather than doing a strict timeline approach, I think having the display grouped by
"family" might be more interesting. All the paper products in one group,
floppies in another, etc. And in the case of floppies for example, I can show some
crossover between floppies and other removable media (ZIP device, etc.).
Ideas and comments are welcome!
Thanks,
Brad
I'm interested in
Core memory
1/4 tape cart
21" fixed disk platter & head (NCR 656/CDC Hawk if I can ask (kick myself for
trashing my stack of them))
Various memory chips
Bernoulli carts
Syquest carts
WORM disc cart
What ever you think is interesting.
But not punch[ed] cards?
punch[ed} tape?
floppies?
reel to reel tape?
[USB] flash drives?
memory cards
CD? (include some of the ridiculous promotional odd shaped mini-CDs!)