• How It's Made: Hard Disks - 60's Edition
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[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQwCMDRajJo[/media]
That friggeen nice jazz playing throughthe whole thing. Mmmff
Totally misread that title. wow
5:26 They used pneumatics and a keyboard to press keys on the computer keyboard.
[QUOTE=Ott;50084372]5:26 They used pneumatics and a keyboard to press keys on the computer keyboard.[/QUOTE] I'm surprised they didn't make a custom terminal for that specific purpose. Interesting stuff though. The lathe cutting sort of reminded me of resurfacing brake rotors. Its kinda satisfying to watch.
Before [t]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2398291986_8ac48b17f4_o.jpg[/t][t]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/RAMAC.jpg[/t][t]http://intmstat.com/blog/2006/10/HDD.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/IBM_0665-30_HDD_1.jpg[/t] [t]http://metamythic.com/wp-content/upld/2012/10/hard-disk-ad-morrow.jpg[/t] look at this [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/5.25_inch_MFM_hard_disk_drive.JPG[/t] and found the pack [URL="https://blog.adafruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cdc9987.jpg"]here [/URL]I think from the video? I'm pretty happy that they decided to spend billions on computers and we got out of the phase of computers the size of a small minivan but the shit is crazy cool to look at
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