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 <
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> 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
>
>

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