In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/04/2005 at 11:53 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I accept this as definitive. I don't have access to this >publication. So the 2305 was/is a disk instead of a drum. Cool. >But still I wonder why so many of us thought it was a drum way back >when, Google for "urban legend" or "Mencken bathtub hoax"; these things acquire a life of their own. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html