Fwd: [Electronics_101] On this day

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Friday 14 September 2007 00:15:03 Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2007 at 17:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > Though this would be interesting.   Just one of the large boxes in the
> > picture, hold almost as much as a DVD does today.   Just show how far we
> > have come.
>
> Try about 3 3.5 DSHD floppies.  A DVD is orders of magnitude larger.
>
> It seems to me that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry once had
> a model of one whose operation could be observed (i.e. much of the
> box "skins" were stripped away so you could observe the head moving
> up and down the stack.

I often wonder about the process that lead to the design of the drive.  I can 
picture a couple of engineers sitting mulling over the problem over a few 
beers, trying to get more capacity out of their disks.  One gets up to go and 
get a round in, and decides to go stick something on the jukebox...

Gordon