24 Jan
2009
24 Jan
'09
10:13 a.m.
On Friday 23 January 2009 11:55:10 pm Josh Dersch wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Wow, how sixties...! :-)
I especially like that pic of the unit with the cover off on page 5.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On 22 Jan 2009 at 3:42, William Maddox wrote:
Wow, that's quite a drive!
Found a brochure of sorts at
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Bryant/Bryant.Model2.1965
.102646212.pdf. (Gotta love the gal they have on the cover :)). I've seen large platters like this on
head-per-track disks
made by Burroughs. There's one on the Illiac IV at CHM.
I saw a similar drive at CMU that was allegedly the swapping
disk for a DEC KA-10. I vaguely remember being told that
the capacity was 512K words (36 bit on the KA-10). The
drive was designed for speed, not capacity.
Could also be from one of the vertically-mounted Bryant disks. I
used to have one of those platters in my office; thought about making
a coffee table of it, but the hole in the middle was a problem.
IIRC, they didn't spin very fast--about 600 RPM. The heads were very
heavy.
There are photos and specs for Byrant units on the web.
Cheers,
Chuck