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Article #620803Re: Nostalgia
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:21
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:21
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On 2/18/2018 8:46 AM, Bernd Felsche wrote: > Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2018-02-17, Quadibloc wrote: >>> Peter Flass wrote: > >>>> I've got an early book by James Martin on "man-computer-interfaces" (I >>>> guess no women need apply) that covers such things as of the early 70s. >>>> Martin has a chapter covering Sabre. > >>> "Human Being-Computer Interface", "Person-Computer Interface", or >>> "Man/Woman- Computer Interface" would all have been longer; that it was >>> understood to include everyone, not just males, though, was entirely usual >>> at the time. > >> HCI - Human-Computer Interface > >> On the other hand, an IBMism from the Good Old Days is >> HDI - Head-Disk Interference >> (known colloquially as a head crash) > > Or Head-Desk Impacts > On old Bryant hard disks, each disk platter spins in a vertical plane. The platters were 39 inches (0.99 m) in diameter, rotating at up to 1,200 rpm. Sometimes a single disk platter would come loose, roll across the floor, and cut its way through the wall like a saw! An early implementation of "removable media"!!! ;-) -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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