Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> On Friday 23 December 2005 01:19 pm, William Donzelli wrote:
>>> Somewhere in my storage unit I have service data for one of those,  is
>>> anybody interested in that enough to make it worth my while to dig it
>>> out?  No promises as to when,  but...
>>
>> Of course! Start diggin'...
>>
>> If it is for an IBM 2311 or 3330, dig fast.
>
> Not IBM.  Control Data,  maybe?  For some reason "Model 40" comes to mind.
> It's a weird format,  very large pages,  11 inches is the _shorter_
> dimension.


Singer?  ISTR that Singer had a model 40 drive (14 in disk pack) in their 
system 10. Possibly using rotary transformer servo like Diablo Systems...

>
> I also remember running across a terminator for one of those,  too.
>
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>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics