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IBM FBA 3370 HDD Just-For-Fun Reminescence

#1 submix8c

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Posted 22 June 2011 - 02:29 PM

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...

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#2 dencorso

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Posted 26 June 2011 - 11:24 PM

The IBM RAMAC...

#3 jaclaz

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 03:14 AM

Be aware of going too far down the memory lane....
http://www.911cd.net...ic=21702&st=122

it shows your age... :ph34r:

...Why, in MY day....

http://reboot.pro/1908/

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 08:14 AM

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...)

#5 allen2

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 09:20 AM

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.

#6 dencorso

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 06:10 PM

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. :yes: