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Default OT - "World¢s Most Expensive Hard DriveTeardown"

On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:05:55 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:
Grabbed a copy to show students. Hope that's OK!


No problem. There's a nice one of the entire system on the NMoC site:

http://www.tnmoc.org/sites/default/f...box/public/JR-
computers13.jpg

Despite the 'JR' in the filename I'm pretty sure that it's not one that I
took, though - I don't think it was long after the system was brought
into the main museum hall that I hopped across the Pond for good, and so
all of my photos show the machine in a much less presentable state :-)

Oh, I've got one here of the HDA from an RA81 drive too which they might
like (IIRC that was 14" as well):

http://www.patooie.com/temp/ra81hda.jpg

.... and one of a much larger platter:

http://www.patooie.com/temp/platter.jpg

That one was at the Centre for Computing History, but I don't recall what
system it was from now (although I could ask).

Are you on Facebook, BTW? I have a group with various ex-UKC CompSci
students on there...


Indeed I am. Chuck me an invite or however all that malarkey works (I
generally can't find anything on facebook since they imposed that whole
timeline thing on everyone!)

cheers

Jules