And now for something weird...

killivolt

Joined Jan 10, 2010
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They had a room full of 1403's (I think) at Ford. It was a neat sound when they were running full out.
There must have acres of 100mb disk drives and the tape drives I worked on.

Ahh, the good old days.:)
Old days? still the cheaper way to go for large storage needs today. Still good today I guess.

kv
 

ronv

Joined Nov 12, 2008
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Old days? still the cheaper way to go for large storage needs today. Still good today I guess.

kv
Tape drives are still handy if you want to ship the data around or archive it. But the density of disk drives kind of passed them by. I spent about 20 years in that business with IBM, Storage Tek, and Aspen Peripherals. Two start ups. Lots of fun and work.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Tape drives are still handy if you want to ship the data around or archive it. But the density of disk drives kind of passed them by. I spent about 20 years in that business with IBM, Storage Tek, and Aspen Peripherals. Two start ups. Lots of fun and work.
And now it's flash memory USB's turn... and solid state storage, which is the same thing.... except if you count the not so recent arrival of FRAM (ferro-magnetic ram) which I think will soon revolutionize storage still some more.
 
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killivolt

Joined Jan 10, 2010
836
Tape drives are still handy if you want to ship the data around or archive it. But the density of disk drives kind of passed them by. I spent about 20 years in that business with IBM, Storage Tek, and Aspen Peripherals. Two start ups. Lots of fun and work.
I didn't live it, just a class with questions for large long term storage. As memory serves me. I would use an emoji but it would need to be carved in stone for long term storage.

I think the Egyptians had that covered. (Literally)

kv

Edit: emoji :D
 

ronv

Joined Nov 12, 2008
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I didn't live it, just a class with questions for large long term storage. As memory serves me. I would use an emoji but it would need to be carved in stone for long term storage.

I think the Egyptians had that covered. (Literally)

kv

Edit: emoji :D
I worked with a really smart guy at Storage Tek (Juan Rodriquez). Towards the end he ran the optical disk division.
It was a really bad idea, but none the less we pursued it with millions of dollars. It was a write once device and they struggled getting the disk to work. At the time I was working on magnetic disks so we went to the shop and punched some holes in a 14 inch disk and took it over to him as an example of how to do it. Similar to your Egyptian example.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,776
I worked with a really smart guy at Storage Tek (Juan Rodriquez). Towards the end he ran the optical disk division.
It was a really bad idea, but none the less we pursued it with millions of dollars. It was a write once device and they struggled getting the disk to work. At the time I was working on magnetic disks so we went to the shop and punched some holes in a 14 inch disk and took it over to him as an example of how to do it. Similar to your Egyptian example.
And whatever happened to Juan???
 

ronv

Joined Nov 12, 2008
3,770
And now it's flash memory USB's turn... and solid state storage, which is the same thing.... except if you count the not so recent arrival of FRAM (ferro-magnetic ram) which I think will soon revolutionize storage still some more.
Googling.....
 

GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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I worked with a really smart guy at Storage Tek (Juan Rodriquez). Towards the end he ran the optical disk division.
It was a really bad idea, but none the less we pursued it with millions of dollars. It was a write once device and they struggled getting the disk to work. At the time I was working on magnetic disks so we went to the shop and punched some holes in a 14 inch disk and took it over to him as an example of how to do it. Similar to your Egyptian example.
When you said, it was a startup, I automatically assumed it failed. The StorageTek name survives

https://www.oracle.com/storage/tape-storage/index.html
 
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