14 Sep
2007
14 Sep
'07
4:16 a.m.
On Friday 14 September 2007 00:15:03 Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 13 Sep 2007 at 17:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I often wonder about the process that lead to the design of the drive. I can
picture a couple of engineers sitting mulling over the problem over a few
beers, trying to get more capacity out of their disks. One gets up to go and
get a round in, and decides to go stick something on the jukebox...
Gordon
Though this would be interesting. Just one of
the large boxes in the
picture, hold almost as much as a DVD does today. Just show how far we
have come.
Try about 3 3.5 DSHD floppies. A DVD is orders of magnitude larger.
It seems to me that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry once had
a model of one whose operation could be observed (i.e. much of the
box "skins" were stripped away so you could observe the head moving
up and down the stack.