Re: Review of Past IBM Drives

2011-01-03 Thread Ed Gould
, good. Ed --- On Mon, 1/3/11, Rick Fochtman wrote: From: Rick Fochtman Subject: Re: Review of Past IBM Drives To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 1:39 PM --- The whole article stinks of something given

Re: Review of Past IBM Drives

2011-01-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
--- The whole article stinks of something given to a bored intern to complete, and he punted after 5 minutes of research. Certainly there were important advancements in the 1970s and 80s. And yes, I am still looking fo

Re: Review of Past IBM Drives

2011-01-02 Thread William Donzelli
>>http://www.macworld.com/article/156758/2010/12/harddriveevolution.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl > > "first commercial computer, IBM 305 system," > > FSVO "first" that I'm not familiar with. The whole article stinks of something given to a bored intern to complete, and he punted after 5 minutes of r

Re: Review of Past IBM Drives

2011-01-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <991288.12980...@web161410.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, on 12/31/2010 at 06:03 PM, Ed Gould said: >http://www.macworld.com/article/156758/2010/12/harddriveevolution.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl "first commercial computer, IBM 305 system," FSVO "first" that I'm not familiar with. -- Shmuel (

Re: Review of Past IBM Drives

2011-01-01 Thread Rick Fochtman
Ed Gould wrote: http://www.macworld.com/article/156758/2010/12/harddriveevolution.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl --- It's pretty good, but missing info on the "modern" demountable drives, or any of the m

Review of Past IBM Drives

2010-12-31 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.macworld.com/article/156758/2010/12/harddriveevolution.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN