[rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:38:35 -0500
At 03:59 PM 10/17/2008, Richard wrote, in part:
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.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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