9 Feb
2003
9 Feb
'03
12:05 p.m.
...the box was about three feet long, one foot tall,
... on front of the
box there were
two or three buttons ..
Sounds alot like a Fujistu 8?" FSD/SMD. Used in the early Apollo 'personal'
workstations, although those suckers (the Apollo) probably weighed 500lbs
complete. The concept of what a personal workstation is has changed
somewhat
since then. This guy (the Fujitsu) was considered a size breakthrough in
~1980.
Mainframe disk drives were 5X bigger by weight.
John A.