29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
7:34 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
There's a mom+pop computer shop in Takoma Park, MD
that likes to stick all
the oldest hardware they have in their front window. The only thing they
have I've never seen before is a hard disk assembly, in a clear plastic
case (maybe 30cm by 50cm), 3 platers, with a warranty sticker that says
IBM and 10SR. I'm curious what sort of systems these were used in.
Does this look right?
http://www.kiwigeek.com/hjp/comps/IBM_s34/OnTruck/P1010009.jpg
These disks are out of, as the link suggests, an S/34. I think they were
used in the S/36's as well, but I could be wrong.
I know they were also used in the Series/1 machines, as I have a stripped
one in the basement that the people before me had already dismantled.
Gotta love hard disks with electromagnetic drum brakes.
JP
