Hello Lee, thanks for confirming this! To my knowledge, that would have been the only place world-wide in very recent past where 300MB drives based on disk packs would still (or again) be operational and actually be used! Simply amazing - and so unfortunate that it's closed!
Greetings, Pierre Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2023 um 19:52:38 MESZ hat Lee Courtney <leec2...@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben: Hi Pierre, Yes, when LCM was open the Sigma-9 and the connected drives were up and operational, I can't remember what OS the system was running. Maybe CP-V or UTS? Lee On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:51 PM P Gebhardt via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just came across pictures on the LCM website about their SDS Sigma > installation there. > On the pictures, one can see 10-platter disk packs in the corner and stored > on the disk drives. > Did the LCM ever had these in operation, either for data retrieval or even > demo purposes? > I know of the Jim Austin Computer museum where they fixed a CDC 9766 drive > but it suffered > a head crash after a few hours according to their description which led to > giving up the operation > of these drives. > > Greetings, > Pierre > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.digitalheritage.de > -- Lee Courtney +1-650-704-3934 cell
