26 Jan
2002
26 Jan
'02
9 a.m.
Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Julius Sridhar spake:
Once long ago I had a IBM-2310 Disk storage unit ( single drive ).
Nothing like 250+ LB floppy capacity drive running off of 240 VAC.
With a 500,000 16 bit word capacity per removable media many aps
never used a file sytem but just wrote directly to the disk. Now days
1 Meg will not even boot a OS.:(
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
On 26 Jan 2002, Michael Schneider wrote:
O!.. Ok.. Do not drop them on your foot.
These aren't the ones that are over a foot wide in a clear plastic? case
with a handle in the centre to carry or lock them in place?
BrYan Hmmmm, my VAX-11/730 weights MUCH more then me.
My S/390's *hard disk* weighs *20 times* as much as me. 8-)