What 200MB of 'removable storage' looked like in 1970

[Saracen]

..... As for a slide rule, mine still gets regular daily use

Yeah, but what for?

[Lee H]

for 0ID and his fetish heres 1 of the pics I have

[matty-hodgson]

Lee, why are they sat on tumble driers?

[Funkstar]

Lee, why are they sat on tumble driers?

Those are the drums the disks go into

[Behemoth]

I bet they were noisey as hell when they were running at full tilt.

I remember when I was tinkering around with some old SCSI hard drives I was given and 6 of them in full chat when fully spun up at 10,000 rpm was loud enough !!

[99Flake]

Thinking of a suitable word beginning with D was killing me .

We'll go with RAIC

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dung?

[Brucelles]

I bet no-one believes me whan I mention 8" 256Kb floppies.

[peterb]

I bet no-one believes me whan I mention 8" 256Kb floppies.

Yes - just - on a PDP 11/45 iirc.

[TooNice]

And, quite seriously, my early schooldays included using a slide-rule, because calculators didn't exist.

I had to Wiki that up In my defence I did get to play with an abacus. Not that I ever got far with it either, I was basically expected to work out most calculations in my head or on a sheet of paper. Mostly in my head.

[shadowmaster]

In case anyone is wondering what a ruler is. Honestly until today I had never heard of one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule