end of an era

[rekees4300]

Didn't those 360s use hydraulic actuators for the disc drives? Seals would go bad and there would be oil all over the inside of them. ISTR seeing the IBM techs in their white shirt, tie & dark suits having to work on those beasts. I felt bad for them. At the time (mid 70s) I did tech support for a company that made typesetting equipment, but at least we were allowed to dress a bit more casually.

Our equipment at the time used drum storage...big as a washing machine with a whopping 8meg storage capacity!! I think the PDP 8's we used maxed out at 32k core...no bloatware in those days!!

Actually they used hamsters on a treadmill. Drum storage was short lived, quickly replaced by platters. Recall in the 70's went on a business trip that required transport of the platters. Walking through airport everybody would stare because nobody had a clue what I was carrying.

 

[dave1949]

I worked on platter drives. Head crashes and alignments, air filters, spindle drive motors and a bunch printed circuit cards. My main site had 24 drives and about 40 disc packs. Sometimes the poor operators would get into this protracted round robin game with the system scheduler mounting and unmounting packs. :laughing:

It's odd to think that a terabyte of storage would be easy in the space that just one R/W head took up, let alone the platter itself. And there was probably enough copper and steel in one drive's servo to make several hundred modern desktops.

 

[Soundguy]

.. and the average phone today is (way) more powerfull than what got us to the moon..

 

[PhysAssist]

I am reading that thread and the Xray of your leg is helping me loose weight. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Not real hungry after seeing all of the metal in your leg! :shocked:

I have an IBM 5150 PC 1 at home in the closet and I would bet it would work if I powered it up. A few years ago, these are the same years used to count FarmGirls age, I knew a guy who had a 5150 PC 1 on his desk that was serial number 5. Yeppers, the fifth PC IBM built. He wrote much of IBM DOS in assembler and used that machine for years after it was obsolete. Eventually he got a PS/2 Mod 70 but that 5150 PC was still in his office and in use. Now, PC in this case is Personal Computer. IBM had a 5100 PC where PC stood for Portable Computer. That PC weighed over 50 pounds but it did include a B&W monitor and tape drive! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The S100 systems were kinda on the way out when I bought my first micro computer, aka, an Apple II+.

Later,
Dan

Hi Dan, et al,

Sorry 'bout the graphic nature of my post.... But glad it's helping you!

And I thought I was bad having kept my old HP running Win 98 SP2 until I couldn't fix or repair it any longer (last year).


Thomas

 

[Soundguy]

i have a pc running win 95 and it is? a k5 or k6 chip.. 150 mhz, and has some sort of seagate 850??meg hdd, partitoned into 2 425meg drives.

use it on a dedicated AV cart at my wifes school to run scrolling banner adds on a vga to tv converter..

 

[aczlan]

i have a pc running win 95 and it is? a k5 or k6 chip.. 150 mhz, and has some sort of seagate 850??meg hdd, partitoned into 2 425meg drives.
use it on a dedicated AV cart at my wifes school to run scrolling banner adds on a vga to tv converter..

Presumably, its not connected to any networks...

Aaron Z

 

[Soundguy]

nope/ standalone system.

might have a modem in it.. but no network card.

even if it had a NIC .. i don't know if you could get them to talk..

 

[aczlan]

nope/ standalone system.
might have a modem in it.. but no network card.
even if it had a NIC .. i don't know if you could get them to talk..

As long as the school was still running IPV4, Win 95 should be able to talk via a wired network. Wireless could get dicy, given the problems I see with WPA2 in XP, I am not sure anyone backported it to 95.

Aaron Z

 

[Soundguy]

As long as the school was still running IPV4, Win 95 should be able to talk via a wired network. Wireless could get dicy, given the problems I see with WPA2 in XP, I am not sure anyone backported it to 95.

Aaron Z

i remember a long while back having a home network running 802.11b or something to that effect. had 1 switch, a WAP and the 1 local pc, and then one across the house with a lil linksys dongle. man that was a PITA to get working.

now G and N router.. et al .. etc. easy.


of couse now that brings back memories of arcnet and some thomas conrad cards.. and dip switcha nd jumpers...

 

[Soundguy]

of course.. i guess better than token roing / ibm.



I rememebr old days of pc gaming. and no 10base T network. was all bnc cable with terminator resistors and T's. someone would unplug to leave and hose the game. then we got smart and made up a long cable with pre installed T's and just had people connect them up to their bnc on their NIC.

back then it was all plug and pray and irc and dma setting.

then loading net bios and ip config.. etc. oh the joy.....