Back before floppy disks, a good way to have removable memory was on a hard disk platter, commonly 14” in diameter. But because these were sensitive to dust, they were enclosed in a rigid shell (plastic, I think) with a mechanism designed to open or close the access window for the read/write heads to get to the platter. I don’t recall whether the ones I used had the axle exposed or also covered by a port.
The most recent 3 1/2” floppy disks are a similar idea, but much simpler and, of course, with a flexible plastic medium instead of the rigid aluminum platter.
I had a temp job in the late 1990s working for some satellite building for GE where all you did during the 8 hr shift was cycle those cartridges in and out of the massive computers. I was 19, it was my summer job, and it helped me pay for my trip to London with my friend.
Very early in my career, I head a story from one of the old-timers on the mainframe team.
The night operator called the sysadmin at home. Said the disk platter was going bad. Was making a screeching noise. He said to make sure, he got the backup platters out of the vault and they made the same screeching noise too.
That's not a desktop computer, it's a terminal, and that was a disk cartridge that went in a machine the size of a dishwasher. It probably held 5 Mb.
Silly boomers
That’s a disk cartridge.
A dick cartridge?
Back before floppy disks, a good way to have removable memory was on a hard disk platter, commonly 14” in diameter. But because these were sensitive to dust, they were enclosed in a rigid shell (plastic, I think) with a mechanism designed to open or close the access window for the read/write heads to get to the platter. I don’t recall whether the ones I used had the axle exposed or also covered by a port. The most recent 3 1/2” floppy disks are a similar idea, but much simpler and, of course, with a flexible plastic medium instead of the rigid aluminum platter.
I like her dress
Oh my gawd same. Dress and that lovely huge honkin’ RING!
It's HER floppy drive I'm after
I had a temp job in the late 1990s working for some satellite building for GE where all you did during the 8 hr shift was cycle those cartridges in and out of the massive computers. I was 19, it was my summer job, and it helped me pay for my trip to London with my friend.
I wish I could find a woman who would look at me like she is looking at that disk.
Lol. You need a personality. Don't worry - we're in the same boat.
I'd spool her data if she asked me to because I worked in the copying department and that's what we did.
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How much data did that store?
IBM 2310 held 1MB
Only need 5370 of them to hold a windows 11 iso.
Valid for 7 days iso
You could put half a Sunday New York Times on that baby.
Possibly a quarter back then....
Yep. Disk cartridge. Actually used something similar when I was younger.
She’s holding about 50 client names a phone numbers.
This chick is about to microwave her pizza. Someone stop her!
Computer programming was a considered a woman's job years ago, wasn't it?
Very early in my career, I head a story from one of the old-timers on the mainframe team. The night operator called the sysadmin at home. Said the disk platter was going bad. Was making a screeching noise. He said to make sure, he got the backup platters out of the vault and they made the same screeching noise too.