Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Aug 2007 18:56 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "Can you imagine a computer history museum that has to be packed up and put away each winter and then unpacked each summer, and which has three potbellied pigs as its mascot? I can, because I've just visited the DigiBarn, a wonderful trip down silicon memory lane that's nestled into a 19th-century farmhouse deep in the Santa Cruz mountains, about 90 minutes south of San Francisco."
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I had one of those....
by chemical_scum on Mon 20th Aug 2007 13:05 UTC
chemical_scum
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2005-11-02

back in the 1970's

http://news.com.com/2300-1042_3-6203288-1.html

A front loading hard drive (I think its a Data General one not a DEC, but I used both). Mine (the cartridges) didn't have the orange top like this one, which I think means that they had the massive storage capacity of 4.8MB compared to the regular ones with 2.4MB capacity

Edited 2007-08-20 13:07