28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
4:41 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Roger Holmes wrote:
There were plenty of drum-memory machines once upon a time.
Peace... Sridhar
On 28 Jun, 2007, at 04:59, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Yet another oddity discovered today: it would seem that the rotating
magnetic fixed-head disk in the Burroughs L-2000/3000/4000/5000 machines
wasn't for secondary storage (as I'd assumed), it was the primary store
in place of the core typically found in systems of the time. I bet there
can't be many machines around which had rotating store as the primary
memory. This thread has been a real disappointment.
Almost all of the responses
have been about computers using standard microprocessors - off the shelf
components. Yes a few had non-vanilla flavored OS's, or idiotic I/O
schemes. A few were even painted different colors from PC Beige.
Then you are not reading all the replies.