JP Hindin wrote: The CEs called them "Piccolo" drives... IIRC (and this goes back twenty years), they were referred to as a 62PC drive, and were 64M in size. My first S/34 had four of them, for a total of 256MB. I remember that one needed to be replaced and there was this formatting procedure thatrequired the serial number of the drive to be inputted into a screen. This required the CE to take a flashlight and stick his head inside the machine to obtain it. It was some gawd-awful long number. The he had to reply to a pile of screens which all warned about the dangers of formatting and data loss. There was a place to note that the "customer has been informed" of this in one of the screens. I remember thinking that the sequence for launching our nukes couldn't be this convoluted. Barry

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Dave McGuire wrote: Make your way to Iowa and it's yours ;) (Shameless plug to follow) Free for pickup one IBM System/34, complete with documentation and print sets. OS, couple hundred 8" floppies, 20 8" jukebox cartridges (for it's internal 8" 10-floppy changer). Even comes with three appropriate modems ;) Four internal 64MB disks. JP Middle o' Iowa.