12 May
2013
12 May
'13
8:11 p.m.
On Sun, 12 May 2013, BE Arnold wrote:
I can likely donate a 5.25" half-height harddrive (several platter...I
forget how many) if you need one. I can get larger sized and faster
drives for use in the system it's saved for easily enough.
Can't think of anything else I have that would work for more than just a
"history of audio storage methods" display.
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.
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!) 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
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