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From: Roland Perry on 25 Jun 2010 10:04 In message <88jcelFs8lU6(a)mid.individual.net>, at 09:50:13 on Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Huge <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> remarked: >(I thought it was an NCR/Elliott 4130? Or were they subsumed into ICL?) I started on an ICL 4120 which was an Elliott design, but inside ICL by late 60's. -- Roland Perry
From: Roland Perry on 25 Jun 2010 10:05 In message <88jjl9F592U3(a)mid.individual.net>, at 11:53:13 on Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Bob Eager <rde42(a)spamcop.net> remarked: >I never said otherwise Sometimes it's really hard for people on usenet to accept that a posting is in agreement with theirs. -- Roland Perry
From: Mike Tomlinson on 25 Jun 2010 09:56 In article <BbednRHroYQSK7zRnZ2dnUVZ7rWdnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, Jon Green <jonsg(a)deadspam.com> writes >A low level reformat can sometimes help, but IME it usually only delays >the inevitable. There's no such thing with modern drives. All you can do is zero it (write zeros to every sector). -- Mike Tomlinson
From: Mike Tomlinson on 25 Jun 2010 10:02 In article <88jd26Fs8lU8(a)mid.individual.net>, Huge <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> writes >Having recently moved my aged mother from a 3 bed house to a 1 bed flat, I >am determined to throw all the junk out. I did a similar thing 3 years ago. Just coming to the last of the piles of boxes in the back bedroom. -- Mike Tomlinson
From: Roland Perry on 25 Jun 2010 10:08
In message <88jcpkFs8lU7(a)mid.individual.net>, at 09:56:04 on Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Huge <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> remarked: >> In mid 70's I worked on ICL drives, including something they called a >> "drum", which was a single-platter mounted vertically. > >You sure it was a "platter"? Only, when I worked for ITT in around 1975/6 >(on what became the Unimat 4080 telephone switch), the message switches >that we shared our computer room with definitely had drums that were >drum shaped. Absolutely sure. It was in ICL's in-house computer room in Bracknell, and I was one of those engineers allowed to wander around and look at anything I wanted to. In the hope that one day, when it broke, I could try to fix it. I say "day", more like "half an hour". -- Roland Perry |