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   Message 179 of 1,530   
   John Guillory to David Baldwin   
   Re: More Old Stuff   
   03 Jun 14 23:54:15   
   
   DB> See if the old 600 hard drive will spinup and try the C=64 good find.   
      
   Look on Youtube for EEV (Electrical Engineers ???) Blog.  Recently he tore    
   down an old 10gig or so that he thought was a 10 meg.  None the less, this    
   thing was larger than your average 5hp lawn mower engine!  Quite simplistic   
   design on the inside!  Must have had all the hard work done in the controller   
   card!  I also dare to ask how much power that baby drew!  It was from a bank   
   and he said back in the early 70's, or late 60's it cost a quarter of a    
   million dollars!  It had ports for Talon input and output with filters for air   
   filtering!  I used to have a full-height 10meg hard drive that'd easily break   
   a foot, but this thing that this guy found will break your back carrying it!   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
    * Origin: KF5QEO's Shack -- kingcoder.net (1:396/60)   

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