These Finch drives being 1980s technology that got run pretty hard ... the repair bench over at [Usagi Electric] A CDC Finch hard disk drive, available in 8 to 32 MB for all your data storage ...
Lucky kids in the 1980s found their parents bringing home a personal computer and setting it up in a family room for everyone to share. The first computers used a floppy disk and DOS. Until the ...
An illustration of a simple Nipkow disk. Hzeller (CC BY-SA 3.0). There was one piece of television technology that evaded a 1980s dumpster-diver, no 625-line PAL set from the 1970s was ever going ...
which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s. The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before ...
bubble memory was about as fast as a slow hard disk but it held its content without power. As hard disks greatly improved in the 1980s, bubble memory was abandoned even though it was well suited ...