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Some people just like to carry around the Library of Congress.
3350's weren't they the removable ones? I remember an operator removing one while it was still rotating, the interlock failed. It threw him across the room.
On second thoughts that might have been 3330
3330's and older 2314's had an external "Goldfish bowl" like case and were loaded on to the IBM mainframe via opening a drawer, putting the assembly on to the spindle and REVERSE unscrewing the case to remove the outer assembly.
3350's from what I remember were fixed mounted (i.e non removable) drives.
At least it shows I'm not the oldest guy on these boards if people can still remember that hardware.
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jimbo
Inside every older person is a younger one wondering what's this all about then.
Hi there
I don't suppose you ever had to input data to your computer using THESE.
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jimbo
Oh yes. I started on an IBM 360-125 with a massive 32k of "core" (real ferrite rings) recently upgraded from 16k and a room full of girls punching cards to feed into it. Even the programs were loaded from cards and this was used to run a medium sized company. Most of the programming was assembler.
Those were the days.