[rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.

At 03:59 PM 10/17/2008, Richard wrote, in part: [This got delayed in delivery, don't know why. Hope it isn't a duplicate by now] 
This all seems to have happened in another life.


Same here.  What stories we could all tell.
I remember having to rent a spare PDP-11 [switches and paper tape of course] as a backup, every time we did a demo on our police car tracking system, a contract from DOT. Reliability was indeed an issue in those days. (Cubic San Diego)
When I got out of the navy in 1956, my first job was at Bendix Pacific in North Hollywood and we were honored to have an IBM 650 with a drum memory. I think the ram was hydraulic, but don't remember for sure. The computer lived in a room by itself. I doubt that the company ever generated a useful program for that computer. As for me, I was in telemetry and had a ball, learning about transistors from the very beginning.
When I owned my own systems house, I actually made a market in 64K chips, which were in short supply for a while.
Back to Terrabyte hard drives, I bought a 1 Tb Intel "My Book" last winter which sits on a Firewire on this computer and serves as a backup for our 3 computers over our wireless network. I forgot the price but it was less than $200. (It's drive "M" on this computer, which is quite full with ESDI, SCSI, and SATA interface drives in it. Runs windows and Unix.

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