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Takes me back to the whirrr-clunk of retries on DEC RX02's. Got into trouble for writing an RT11 driver for a Rodime 5Mb hard disk drive (no idea how many platt
by zh3 4y ago
Takes me back to the whirrr-clunk of retries on DEC RX02's. Got into trouble for writing an RT11 driver for a Rodime 5Mb hard disk drive (no idea how many platters it had, it was full height); seems so insanely large at the time that I split it into 8 separate area (being used to 256Kb per 8" floppy and rarely filling that, having 8 drives with over twice the capacity each was amazing).
- mlyle 4y agoNot quite related, but my oldest brother tells a story of an internship repairing 8" hard drives for CP/M machines... and having verified he'd fixed his first, picked it up, and went to stick it on the shelf. It hadn't fully spun down, so as he twisted his body the whole huge spinning mass gyroscopically precessed it out of his hands and it crashed to the ground in a million pieces.
- zh3 4y agoI worked at a place that had 14" HDD's - huge 19" rack mount things, took ages to spin down. Never carried one personally, older personnel advised not trying to turn a corner while carrying one unless fully spun down.