That depends on what your definition of "old" is,
I'm 31 but alot of people keep guessing the wrong age.
How old are you?
These discs might have been a little newer than the
ones you dealt with, these had a lift handle to take
the main cover off, and you had to raise a lid
and let them down into this round place, they
were approx 10-20 megs I think.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I used DEC equipment, but you have the right idea.
>
> 10MB interchangeable cartridges that could take up to a half-hour to intialise if
>something wasn't happy.
>
> Big turn-handles on top of the case, and you'd have to slide out a drawer to drop
>them in to the cabinet.
>
> They collected an s-load of dirt and had to be hand-cleaned.
>
> The read-write heads were so large you could see every detail of their design.
>Now-a-days we use SEM technology to test quality and measure deviations in design
>geometry on the read-write heads.
>
> Am I old?
>
>
>
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>
> > Were those pizza sized discs a type of hard cartridge
> > with the name "Nashua" stamped on the side?
> >
> > And did they have a clean function in which an arm
> > came out over the installed disc with the words
> > "turn slowly" stamped on the arm?
> >
> > Hehehe my dad used to have an old Century 2100
> > something or other, might not be the right name,
> > I think it was an "NCR" type of system.
> >
>
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