[mythtv-users] The Smaller... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

Rich Wilson richaw at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 04:59:09 UTC 2007


On 10/17/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jr 'TRS-80 Hard Disk Drive: 5MB, $2000'
>
> See:
>
> http://mail3.beww.org/links/cromemco0025.jpg
>
> Just think of it: 5.6 Mbits/second transfer rate (that's "bits", not
> "bytes"). A massive 11 megabytes of storage (unformatted).
>
> We used to run Xenix on these machines, sure seemed fast at the time :-)
>
> beww
>
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Yes, 11 megabytes _IS_ massive!
http://www.pdp8.net/dfds32/dfds32.shtml
I calculate 181 kBits/Sec from the info.

Rich

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