> I remember encountering them mostly as replacements for the terrible 821 > drives, which had the appearance of an 808, but substantially increased > capacity. I don't think any 821s were ever installed at a customer's > site, however--I saw the lot of them that we had falling to the CE > sledgehammer. > > They were replaced by banks of 844s--lots of them. I think one site had > well over 100 installed, all hooked together with a MAC on at least 2 > Cyber 74s. > > > --Chuck
> Wow, more than hundred of these CDC drives??? This must have been a massive installation! I didn't know so many disk drives could be combined with Cyber systems. Thanks for the insights! I was already amazed by pictures provided by the University of Auckland: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/MagneticDataStorage/DataStorageImages/DiskPacks/CDCComputerRoom.jpg It doesn't say, though, where this picture was taken. Kind regards, Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers moved to: http://www.digitalheritage.de
