Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Charles Curley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[...]
> I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
> drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
> which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
> mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
> card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern
> moterhboards.

Those old fridge-sized drives we used on mainframes in the Good Old
Days (tm) also had controllers which were in cabinets larger than the
drives. 


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