My hard drive IS BIGGER than yours !! Guaranteed.

[TurboSmoke]

I used to work in R&D in IBM for a few years after university. We were based down in the labs and got to build all sorts of excellent high tech things…I used to remember this thing in the labs and it was always a talking point..

Recently when I was back there (I work for a different company now but I liaise with industry as part of my job) I noticed the old thing sitting there and asked the guys if I could have it..it was labelled for disposal. Although they couldn’t give it to me they did ‘donate’ it to my company and now I am the proud owner of this brute…

Okay the specs:

Case dimensions: 380x520x150mm
Drive dimensions including motor: 410x550x400mm
Platter diameter: 340mm (single disk)
Motor data: 240VAC @ 1.15Amps (3 phase) @ 3450rpm
Year of Manufacture: Dec. 1976
Capacity (estimated): 1Mb – according to the guys that used it in test all those years ago.

This is not a demonstration model as someone suggested; it actually (at some point) works.

Its pictured beside a modern standard 3.5” hard drive and a 2.5” notebook drive.

If anyone has a computer with this type if interface then please help me to get it working again…

 

[TurboSmoke]

and from behind:

 

[TurboSmoke]

and the motor:

 

[skip0110]

I think the motor may be slight overkill.....
Nah, but old hardware is very cool. Hold on to it, some day it might be worth something.

 

[toyomatt84]

You could power a car with that thing! Nice grab there, bud.

 

[Burnout]

That is really cool, and really big!

 

[Klostrophobic]

Haha, 1 megabyte.

You can barely fit a JPG photo of the hard drive on the hard drive.

 

[miata13B]

bejesus, that thing has a starter that would start a Chevy

is that an O-scope next to the HDD? If it is, that drive is montorous

 

[emad]

wow, that's a sexy beast...makes my new 160 gig look tiny

 

[vat_man]

Love that motor - when you fire that puppy up, make sure you have a fire extinguisher near the house power board.

 

[TurboSmoke]

cheers guys...how much do you think i could get for it on ebay?

seriously though, it is only 1mb in size so the jpegs would fill it up



miata13B: do you know about electronics?

its is a very expensive piece of kit, 8 channels all fully floating and isolated digital storage oscilloscpe. perfect for signature analysis capturing a full byte at a time. it has a nifty built in printer that prints the waveforms...all in about £25,000 worth...$45,000 usd.
the probes alone cost £150 each...

it one of the best bits of stuff in our labs..

 

[ceiling_fan]

thats very cool almost as much space as my 250 gig G5 . It makes mine look like a cheese grater.