12 May
2008
12 May
'08
5:37 p.m.
Evan asks:
Could they really still have a running RAMAC?
At least in the early 90's IBM had rececycled RAMAC to mean a
specific RAID product of theirs. e.g. "RAMAC array DASD". I remember
a very large financial customer in the mid-90's being proud of having
bought a terabyte of disk storage (oh, sorry "a terabyte of RAMAC array DASD")
pretty much devoting an entire office building floor to it,
and now I can go down to Staples and buy a terabyte of disk for a couple
hours worth of paycheck.
Tim.
12 May
12 May
5:43 p.m.
Evan asks:
Doh! You beat me to it...
Could they really still have a running RAMAC?
At least in the early 90's IBM had rececycled RAMAC to mean a
specific RAID product of theirs. e.g. "RAMAC array DASD". I remember
a very large financial customer in the mid-90's being proud of having
bought a terabyte of disk storage (oh, sorry "a terabyte of RAMAC array
DASD")
pretty much devoting an entire office building floor to it,
and now I can go down to Staples and buy a terabyte of disk for a couple
hours worth of paycheck.
Tim.
5:45 p.m.
Evan asks:
One more data point: http://tinyurl.com/63uzvg -- see about 3/4 down the
story.
Could they really still have a running RAMAC?
At least in the early 90's IBM had rececycled RAMAC to mean a
specific RAID product of theirs. e.g. "RAMAC array DASD". I remember
a very large financial customer in the mid-90's being proud of having
bought a terabyte of disk storage (oh, sorry "a terabyte of RAMAC array
DASD")
pretty much devoting an entire office building floor to it,
and now I can go down to Staples and buy a terabyte of disk for a couple
hours worth of paycheck.
Tim.
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