Boroughs had a plant in Winnipeg for makong drives got one of their reject platters hanging on my wall
On Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:30 a.m. Christian Corti via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2026, Michael Thompson wrote: > >> On Jul 9, 2026, at 4:06?AM, Mark Linimon via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> There were a number of manufacturers early on. Rice University > >> may have had a Bryant (sp?) drive at one time. When I arrived > >> in 1973 there was a spare platter collecting dust in a storage > >> area. > > Bryant made early drives for CDC, the 6603 if I remember right. Those > > have quite large platters. > > And Burroughs, too. They also built large fixed-head disk drives for OEMs > (e.g. Telefunken TSP 500) > > Christian > >
