anyone notice this gorgeous piece?

Yes. Visible storage has an exhibit displaying various capacity hard drive assemblies. I know there are 2 early 1980s IBM HDAs with internals visible, and at least one early 1970's DEC HDA. See the new Online Visible Storage section off the Museum's main page (www.computerhistory.org) for artifacts of this type currently on display. Lee Courtney > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Steven M Jones > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:42 AM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Cc: spector(a)zeitgeist.com > Subject: Re: anyone notice this gorgeous piece? > > > John Allain wrote: > . > > I take care of the all-go/no-show problem of nonremovables > > by having one drive partially dismantled, for show and it's > > twin all set up for running. To me the inside of a Fujitsu > > M2351A Eagle is as impressive machinery as a Harley engine. > > Now that would be impressive! Showing the engineering, machining, > and general complexity of gear like this would I think be > literally awesome. You might not get the kiddies to conceded that > it could be cool to play games that aren't photorealistically > rendered (let alone ASCII), but I think they'd be dumbstruck by > seeing how enormously complicated real world objects can be. > > The real-world analogy would be the moving partial cutaways of > motors seen at autoshows. I'm sure it's come up before, but I > don't remember seeing anything like this at the Boston Computer > > --S. > >