Billy Pettit real disappointment

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Roger Holmes wrote:
>>
>> On 28 Jun, 2007, at 04:59, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>>> This thread has been a real disappointment.  Almost all of the responses
>>> have been about computers using standard microprocessors - off the shelf
>>> components.  Yes a few had non-vanilla flavored OS's, or idiotic I/O
>>> schemes.  A few were even painted different colors from PC Beige.
>>
>> Then you are not reading all the replies.
> 
> Yet another oddity discovered today: it would seem that the rotating 
> magnetic fixed-head disk in the Burroughs L-2000/3000/4000/5000 machines 
> wasn't for secondary storage (as I'd assumed), it was the primary store 
> in place of the core typically found in systems of the time. I bet there 
> can't be many machines around which had rotating store as the primary 
> memory.

There were plenty of drum-memory machines once upon a time.

Peace...  Sridhar