Proclivities wrote: 

Found this in my dad's garage this weekend: NCR 3150. He was gonna trash it so I brought it home. Complete with power supply/charger and manual, the battery will not charge and it won't boot up; gonna give it to one of the IT guys at the office who likes to tinker with old stuff like this.

 

 
 
SF Library gets coin-operated computer

 miamizsun wrote: 
 

I worked on 100's of these CDC 9766 drives. They has Twenty 14 inch platters for a whopping 300 mb and about 150ms seek time. they used a huge linear motor and 20 heads that cost $852 our cost each. Even in clean rooms these needed their HEPA filters changed once a month. When they crashed it would destroy the heads and the platters would look like a car brake rotor that was run metal to metal forever, I designed and built a portable tester for putting the heads to the alignment track and for doing long seeks to adjust the servo etc. was fun stuff.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I have one of those on my desk at the office, along with several others of diminishing physical but increasing storage size.

 Proclivities wrote: 
... which outcomputes it nine times out of ten.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Apparently 1981 or '82 from what I could find out.  $3,400.00! - an average new car probably cost around $7-or- $8,000.00 back then.

 Proclivities wrote: 
1980 or so?

 Proclivities wrote: 
Ha ha!!! Just bought a 1T HD for less than $100, including shipping.

AT&T confirms that there is indeed a DSL outage in my town.  They have no estimated time for restoration of service, but most outages last 24 hours.  Really?  wtf

Is this Mr. Watson?  Umm...what are you wearing?

 oldviolin wrote: 

  Kinda' cool pairing - in an odd way.

...and it comes with a box of Jell-O pudding