large disk platters?

Send cctalk mailing list submissions to cctalk(a)classiccmp.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org You can reach the person managing the list at cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of cctalk digest..." Message: 4 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:55:18 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jules=20Richardson?= <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> Subject: large disk platters? To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org I just randomly remembered the other day that when I was at uni one of the computing lecturers one day rolled out an enormous disk platter to demonstrate how hard disk technology has changed over the years. The platter was pretty huge - around 1m in diameter. Any ideas as to what system it may have come from? Im just curious really - I've not seen much really old hardware up close, but the impression I got from the pictures I've seen is that drive technology didn't typically use platters *that* large. (and hell, this beats talking about the war :) cheers Jules Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com End of cctalk Digest