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From: TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
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Subject: Re: External HD Recommendation
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:14:07 -0600
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On 2014-01-01 06:51:07 +0000, Barry OGrady said:

> I had a Honeywell minicomputer in which the hard drive consisted
> of one fixed and one removable platter. 14" diameter for a total
> storage of 4.9 MB.

The first computer I worked on, the ANFSQ7, had a number of drum 
drives, each drum being about a foot in diameter and about two feet 
long, and the capacity was, according to my memory, about 2,000 32 bit 
words.

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas