Likely museum piece - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Dec 1999

Because of its size it will be tempting to mount it as the face of a clock,
though.  Without the rest of the hardware to make it work (which it probably
didn't to all that well anyway) it isn't that interesting as a museum piece.
It might as well stay where it is.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Kennedy &lt;chris(a)mainecoon.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Likely museum piece

...
 Mike Ford wrote:

  I mentioned it once before, but there is a
surplus guy down here in Socal
 with a 42 inch platter out of a Bryant hard drive hanging on his wall. I
 suspect not that high of an offer from a formal institution would pry it
 loose. Isn't this something that belongs in a museum? 

Bryant disk?  Wasn't that the water cooled thing with the platters mounted
in the vertical plane (that is, 90 degrees to what we're generally used to)?
...
 Last time I saw one of those it was being used as a
sort of swap drive
hanging off a customer built channel controller on a CDC6600 at LBL,
must have been 1976.  It was a relic even then.

Seems like the platter belongs almost anywhere else other than on the
wall of some surplus shop...

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