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From: Andy Champ on 24 Jun 2010 16:55 Roland Perry wrote: > In message <hvvpji$gsj$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:20:35 on > Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jules Richardson <jules.richardsonnewsmoo(a)gmail.com> > remarked: >> (and remember the days when you had to reformat the drive if you changed >> its orientation, as otherwise it'd start spewing out errors all over the >> place? :-) > > No, I don't remember that, and I go back all the way to 1980 and drives > that were 10MB per platter. So it's not just me then? (looks at ST506 he keeps to frighten the children) Andy
From: Jeff Strickland on 24 Jun 2010 17:14 "Huge" <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message news:88hvc4F2gmU4(a)mid.individual.net... > On 2010-06-24, Andy Champ <no.way(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> Roland Perry wrote: >>> In message <hvvpji$gsj$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:20:35 on >>> Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jules Richardson <jules.richardsonnewsmoo(a)gmail.com> >>> remarked: >>>> (and remember the days when you had to reformat the drive if you >>>> changed >>>> its orientation, as otherwise it'd start spewing out errors all over >>>> the >>>> place? :-) >>> >>> No, I don't remember that, and I go back all the way to 1980 and drives >>> that were 10MB per platter. >> >> So it's not just me then? > > Hell, no. > > I still have some 5 track paper tape ... > I have an 8-track player.
From: Tim Ward on 24 Jun 2010 17:18 "Tim Streater" <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote in message news:timstreater-14614B.22140424062010(a)news.individual.net... > > Ah, now that's going back a bit. I haven't seen that since I worked on an > Elliott 803. World's best tape readers ... 1,000 cps and could stop between two characters, quite often without even tearing the tape. -- Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear Brett Ward Limited - www.brettward.co.uk Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb Cambridge City Councillor
From: Jeff Strickland on 24 Jun 2010 17:24 "Huge" <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message news:88hvb7F2gmU3(a)mid.individual.net... > On 2010-06-24, Roland Perry <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote: >> In message <hvvpji$gsj$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:20:35 on >> Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jules Richardson <jules.richardsonnewsmoo(a)gmail.com> >> remarked: >>>(and remember the days when you had to reformat the drive if you changed >>>its orientation, as otherwise it'd start spewing out errors all over the >>>place? :-) >> >> No, I don't remember that, and I go back all the way to 1980 > > Pah. Newbie. > >> and drives >> that were 10MB per platter. > > Blimey. Huge capacity. There's a platter from a Xerox system hanging > on my study wall. IIRC, the drive was 20Mb and had 5 platters. I wish > I could remember what the capacity of the DEDS drive on the ICL 1900 > series I learned RPG2 (spit) on was. About 5 Mb (?), with two platters > that had to be exchanged seperately, but in pairs, on a horizontal spindle > inside a *huge* grey crackle-finish enclosure. > > Now I have 3.5 Tb of disk in mys study ... > Ah, the Good Old Days. My first machine had a 350M HDD, and I paid over two thousand dollars (USD) for it. I bought the upgrade graphics/game card that allowed a joystick so I could play Flight Simulator. It was a bit jerky as the scenery files changed. I recently bought a 500G external HDD for $60. I have several Thumb Drives -- flash drives in some circles -- with more capacity than my first computer. I bought a 128M flash drive when they first came out for something like $15, now they give away drives with 8 times that capacity for free to the first 50 shoppers on Saturday. It sucks to be a trail blazer. I buy stuff that leads the industry, and it's obsolete by the end of the month. I bought a flat screen TV a year ago, and when the store was out of stock on my TV, the next shipment was better and cheaper and mine was discontinued.
From: Bob Eager on 24 Jun 2010 17:34
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:18:51 +0100, Tim Ward wrote: > "Tim Streater" <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote in message > news:timstreater-14614B.22140424062010(a)news.individual.net... >> >> Ah, now that's going back a bit. I haven't seen that since I worked on >> an Elliott 803. > > World's best tape readers ... 1,000 cps and could stop between two > characters, quite often without even tearing the tape. Yes, I remember ours. There's a working one at Bletchley Park. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor |