Too many years ago I guess. I got the model number wrong. There never
was a 3030, what I was thinking of was the 3330. But that wasn't
correct either. The "Winchester" drive was the 3040. It's important
since it heavily influenced the design of all later disk drives.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage#IBM_3340>
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> Winchester drives! It was a machine with a 20Mb Winchester on which I
> learned about personal computing. It was connected (in 1986/7) to a
> computer running an OS whose name now escapes me: a DOS but not PC DOS
> or MSDOS.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2008, at 01:28, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Hey, that's cool! I'll be waiting on your report. Made me think
>> about
>> the old IBM 3030 Winchester drives where you could remove the platters
>> and change them out for another set.
>>
>
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