2 Apr
2001
2 Apr
'01
12:35 p.m.
In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdisccu.JPG
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscback.JPG
No good reference for scale, but they are about 4' long X 2' dia
and weigh approx 140 pounds [that's not including the motor & belt drive
visable in picture 1]. These were mounted as pictured [upright], 2 to a
cabinet, the motors were mounted above the drives and ran a 1.5" width
belt down to the drive pulley. I can hardly beliefe these are circa
1985!
Cheers, Craig
2 Apr
2 Apr
4:22 p.m.
Wow, looks like a Warp Core, or somthin :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
ip500 wrote:
In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdisccu.JPG
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscback.JPG
No good reference for scale, but they are about 4' long X 2' dia
and weigh approx 140 pounds [that's not including the motor & belt drive
visable in picture 1]. These were mounted as pictured [upright], 2 to a
cabinet, the motors were mounted above the drives and ran a 1.5" width
belt down to the drive pulley. I can hardly beliefe these are circa
1985!
Cheers, Craig
3 Apr
3 Apr
2:26 a.m.
New subject: nice ibm drive -- but the Sequent is slick
ip500 wrote:
In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
1985!
Cheers, Craig
The Sequent's a slick find.
I worked for Pyramid their main competition. What CPU's are in the
box.
Bill
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2:50 a.m.
New subject: nice ibm drive -- but the Sequent is slick
Hi Bill,
Slick OK but HUGE. It runs 386's [2 per card]. Came out of the Va Tech
computer lab ... along with my best find .. a fairly complete Intel
Hypercube setup [the early one in a 5' silver monolith, iPSC/1] .. runs
32 286 processors in parallel. It came with the Intel 310 front end and
a couple of 9 track tape drives. No terminal however. I've been toying
with the idea of trying to get it up and running. Paul Pierce says he
may have the O/S for it and some info/manuals/etc [which were sadly
missing and sorely needed!]
regards, Craig
PS: Love those drives ... I'm trying to figure some way to hang one
[chains I guess] over my desk with a tracklight on it. I'd prefer not to
kill myself or my back while doing it though.
Bill Pechter wrote:
ip500 wrote:
In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
1985!
Cheers, Craig
The Sequent's a slick find.
I worked for Pyramid their main competition. What CPU's are in the
box.
Bill
--
bpechter(a)monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10
Brainbench MVP | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2
Unix Sys.Admin. | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour"
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