submix8c Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 IBM FBA (Fixe4d Block Architecture) 3310/3370 pre-formatted at 512 bytes/block.Records in files were written according to record-size, etc.Sound familiar? Kind of like PC HDD's? Think Original IBM PC's...Pictures and Specs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The IBM RAMAC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Be aware of going too far down the memory lane....http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702&st=122it shows your age... ...Why, in MY day.... http://reboot.pro/1908/ jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 BWAHAHAH!Well, thanks guys. But the point (if there really is one) is the correlation between the Fixed Blocks of 512 bytes of the said Mainframe drives and the original (and up to now) HDD's used in PC's and how they "shrank"...And I really don't care who knows my age. We old duffers should be pleased we made it this far and still have much to offer.Cheers!(thanks for that great clip...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 I saw some 3380 drives where i studied. I always wondered at what size (physical and capacity) the hard drive would get. Now you could put the entire data of stored on twenty of those that took a room in a single micro sd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Well, just to keep things in the correct perspective, the 4004, Intel's very first (4-bit) processor, had as much computing power as the ENIAC did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I saw some 3380 drives where i studied. I always wondered at what size (physical and capacity) the hard drive would get. Now you could put the entire data of stored on twenty of those that took a room in a single micro sd.I have one of those giant platters in my basement on the wall. I've always wondered what data could be on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 An IBM 5081Datacard, for those who never saw one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 The above pic is from this arstechnica article, FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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