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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 09:38:36 +0100
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On 04/04/2025 01:16, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 16:38:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
>>     The 360/370 boxes WERE really popular, so I'm gonna GUESS there's a
>>     least one or two still chugging away. Maint cost would be insane
>>     these days ... but you can kinda bury that in the budget while new
>>     hardware stands out more and in more places.
> 
> I'm not sure there are any little old ladies left to knit magnetic core.

Last time I looked they were little asian ladies wit teeny nimble fingers.
Did all the coil winding in that factory.

> The tape drives were fragile when new but they and the disk drives the
> size of a washing machine may have been replaced over the years. My mother
> had a plastic thing to keep layer cakes fresh that I was always reminded
> of by the 2311's removable media.
> 
> https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/groups/ibm-1311-2311.pdf
> 
> 7.5 MB!!! What can you ever use that much storage for?  I bought a microSD
> last week for another RPi project. It's getting hard to find them less
> than 64 GB.

Sad but true. You would think they would give 8GB ones away in a box of 
cornflakes...

-- 
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy