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I remember that.
In the mid 1970's, the S3 had them (5445 disk) and the Halon fire
suppression system. :)


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Wilson, Jonathan <piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 18:52 +0000, Ken Killian wrote:


I download the 325-meg file on our network folder, for the remaining 5
Developer hold-outs, who still think punch cards are the greatest thing
since slide-bread...


A bit before my time, punched cards, however I remember on a school
"work experience" week seeing a real hard drive for the first time, 5
huge disks in a plastic case that went into a top loaded "washing
machine" (It looked like half of a twin tub). I think it was 5 meg's, 1
meg' per disk. I remember the machine had user/tasks process (memory I
think) partitions of up to 1024K which as kid who used a BBC micro with
32K (the biggest they did, 500 quid a pop I recall) that used an audio
cassette player to hold the software; was hugely impressed, awestruck
even, with the size.

I was also told that if the alarm went off to drop everything and run...
quickly... as the Halon fire suppression system going off was not
something you wanted to wait around for!

Jon.

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