Dang, I hate hitting the send button before I am done with a message!
Should be Our Hard Drives were the size...
>Our were the size of small washing machines, had 12 platters, with 22
>readable sides, for a total of 2.5 MB! The heads actually flew above the
>disks -- Back when a Hard Disk crash really had meaning and shrapnel (as
>in parts of the hard drive stuck into the walls) in a case or two. :-)
>
>Memory was core then changed to solid state, sort of...
>
>And tape backups...
And tape backups...also used for primary storage!
>Oops, going down that memory lane...sorry...
Gomenasai!
Sushi
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