[Wftl-lug] A trip down computer memory lane

[Carl Lowenstein]

On 8/19/07, Ole Kofoed Hansen <ole+wftl at tuxino.dk> wrote:
> That reminds me of some of the stuff I've seen.
>
> In the basement of a computer club, I was once a member of, there was
> a disk pack, quite similar to the one seen here:
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3850B.html
>
> We were told that it was a 64KB disk, but I'm not so sure about that.

 More like 100MB for the 3330 disk pack, or 200MB for the 3336.

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3330#IBM_3330 >

I did once have a 64kB disk drive for a PDP-11.  It was a
head-per-track drive so there was no time wasted in seeking to another
track.

    carl
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