On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:05:24 +0000, polygonum wrote:

On 07/12/2012 09:02, Broadback wrote:
On 06/12/2012 11:59, The Other Mike wrote:
http://www.eevblog.com/2012/12/05/ee...ost-expensive-
hard-drive-teardown/



Many moons ago, when I used to work we had these very large disk
drives,
they did not have (by today's standards) a large capacity either. These
drives were very prone to "head crashes", that is the heads touched the
disk instead of skimming just over the surface. As a result not only
did the heads have to be replaced but the discs re-polished, which was
a job and a half. Thankfully it was never my task to do this.

When I started out the site was starting to convert from EDS60 to to
EDS200 - exchangeable 60MB to exchangeable 200MB. Packs as heavy as you
could manage with one arm - I'd guess something towards 18" across - and
the drives all too similar to some top loader washing machines. And yes,
in hot tango livery.

I did the hot tango stuff too - but mostly not running VME or DME.

But we started with 2MB exchangeable disks on the ICL [Elliott] 4130...



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