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One of my college jobs was night operator for a bank which ran on a IBM S/36 (model 5360) and our backup was two magazines of 10 8in floppy disks in each. The
by bockris 16y ago
One of my college jobs was night operator for a bank which ran on a IBM S/36 (model 5360) and our backup was two magazines of 10 8in floppy disks in each. The 5360 had an auto loading mechanism and I could gauge how close the backup was to being done by the position of the magazine. Good times.
- bockris 16y agoReplying to self. Lots of pictures here. http://www.corestore.org/36.htm http://www.corestore.org/36.htm
- hga 16y agoVery cool, thanks for sharing that with us. Love those old style straight stroke solenoid head actuators on the disks (Winchesters?). Brings back memories of '70s era CDC SMD disk pack drives. Which would frequently blow their driving power transistors; I had a friend who'd pop the caps and reattach the leads, this was for a small student run computer center with no budget to speak of, using all sorts of surplus equipment, in this case the prototype Lisp Machine's disk drive with a prototype Xylogics 4 card wire wrap UNIBUS controller (Mylar sheets between the card to prevent shorts).