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 KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!  Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 
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If it is going to be one of those threads... anyone remember: the 8" floppy? IBM'$ 2311, 2314, or 3330? (all with "disk packs" - swappable storage that weighed in at (about) 20 lbs? 7 track reel2reel tape drives? .  Hello, from Albany, CA!... ID: 793360 ·  |
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KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0
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[snip] You just haven't frequented the right stores... try "Weird Stuff" in Sunnyvale, CA. - they still have full-height drives. (not necessarily working!) . Hello, from Albany, CA!... ID: 793365 · |
Richard Haselgrove  Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14654 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 
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My first personal computer, in about 1980, had a full-height 5.25" floppy drive in an external enclosure linked by an S100-bus ribbon cable - it cost about the same as the (48KB memory) computer it was attached to. I've still got it in my cellar (basement). What do you think it's been doing for the last ten years? It's still on its first Classic WU..... ID: 793375 · |
John McLeod VII  Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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[snip] I have not been in a junk yard in quite a while, and it is not worth the 5K mile round trip.   BOINC WIKI ID: 793464 · |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... I also remember a picture of either Mr. Hewlett or Mr. Packard wearing a T Shirt with an 8" floppy pocket... BOINC WIKI ID: 793465 · |
RandyC  Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Aw, come on, everybody knows about those. How about the 2319 'Pizza ovens'? And the brand new 3370/3375s that replaced those 3350s? (3370/3375s were the same piece of hardware, but the 3370 was configured as FBA and the 3375 was a CKD device). Ah, the joys of popping plugs when you needed a pack on a different address. (Or when it lost an interrupt). ID: 793468 · |
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KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Ahh, but have you actually operated any of the above? This old-timer has... . Hello, from Albany, CA!... ID: 793807 · |
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Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Been there - done that - and have the T-shirt to prove it... ;) F. 
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RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Ditto, starting on a 360-30 with 96K (as in K-bytes, not Mega-bites) of memory. [edit]One thing I never had a chance to see or work on is the old Data-cell storage unit (forget the number)[/edit] ID: 794006 · |
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1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Of course. I've got a few 8" DSDD floppies put away (not sure why, other than I won't throw them out now, too novel). I used a 2311 type drive on a couple of different systems. Never used 7 track tape, ours were all 9 track. We used them to move data between systems, and we prayed that the drives all "drifted" more or less together. 800 BPI NRZ was not as forgiving as 1600 BPI PE. You didn't mention core memory. ID: 794048 · |
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Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0
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If it is going to be one of those threads... As in "threading of"? All this chat about magnetic media is uber-modern. Real muscles were needed using a teletype to put Algol programmes on punched tape to feed an Elliott 803... ;) F.
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14654 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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If it is going to be one of those threads... Real muscles? Teletype? What about the all-mechanical Hollerith card punches I used in a data preparation centre, c. 1970? No electo-mechanical assistance al all. Numerical input was easy - just one plunger per digit - but if you were programming (I think it was an ICT 1301), you had to remember each separate three-finger-salute for the symbols. FYI, I'm still a two-finger hunt and peck typist, and to this day I type using the middle finger of each hand, rather than the index fingers. Not so much health&safety in those days: I was taught it by the permanent female staff in the data prep room (I was just on summer vacation work experience), who had worked it out for themselves that they got less RSI that way. ID: 794129 · |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20395 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Real muscles? Teletype? Try cranking this? (From 1849) Happy crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 794184 · |
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