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On Tue, 03 May 2005 18:04:05 GMT, Gideon wrote:

Franc Zabkar wrote
The voice coil magnet in the Control Data drives of the early 80s was
about 15 x 15 x 15 cm. It was a back breaker. I still have one
somewhere.

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Those magnets were 6" x 6" x 6" ? Impressive.

Yep. Easily. I have the voice coil magnets off an old, "small"
DEC 5MB disk drive from the mid-70's.
They are 5x5x2" ( 13x13x6 cm approx.)

Serious magnets, those.

Jonesy
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