From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:28:30 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 3330s, 3340s, Winchesters... (was: /dev/drum) In-Reply-To: References: <7wfu3nuqeb.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <3A18DFEC-42B7-4234-9DD1-367733270D50@tfeb.org> <0abe01d3db28$b6573660$2305a320$@ronnatalie.com> <4b95c9f6-0190-be93-7284-d03be289c4ba@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20180424032830.GJ31055@eureka.lemis.com> On Monday, 23 April 2018 at 17:27:29 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > > As disks dropped a little cheaper and having more than one RP06 > became possible (RP06 aka IBM 3330 - project Winchester You're confusing the 3330 with the 3340: the latter was the Winchester, the first disk with an HDA. The 3330 was the old-style disk pack in a cheese bell. A variant (apparently not from IBM; CDC maybe?) of the same disk pack stored 300 MB, and we used a lot of them at Tandem in the 1970s and early 1980s. I suppose they were pretty widespread. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: