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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Mar 1, 2023 19:01:10 GMT
The year is 1956, and Pan Am is readying this aircraft for a flight. What are they loading?
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Post by khj on Mar 1, 2023 19:19:43 GMT
Prototype of high-volume "on-tap" dispensing machine. That big dark tub you seen in the opening is a 50-gallon tank for the raw syrup. Just add chilled water and carbonate... They were sending it air freight to me in Asia. It was difficult to get in Asia back then.
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Mar 1, 2023 19:23:55 GMT
Close, but no
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Post by khj on Mar 1, 2023 19:26:19 GMT
Either that or it was my hard drive. I wanted a drum set, but ordered the wrong kind. I thought IBM stood for Iconic Beats Music.
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Post by khj on Mar 1, 2023 19:40:00 GMT
BTW, back in the day when I was still in college, we did still keep a legacy drum drive. Obviously, they had gotten smaller and higher capacity since that Pan Am flight. But it was rarely used because the drums were so expensive. Primarily used to recover/transfer info from old archived drums.
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Post by khj on Mar 1, 2023 19:44:38 GMT
Well, I stand corrected. I googled it, and it turns out that is not a cylinder/drum drive. It's a disk platter drive. My memory fails me...
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Mar 1, 2023 22:12:04 GMT
With a whopping capacity of 5MB
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Post by khj on Mar 1, 2023 22:14:15 GMT
My brain, or that hard drive? (or both?)
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