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Article #620804Re: Nostalgia
From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:05
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:05
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:21:22 -0600, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >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"!!! ;-) Could have been worse <flashing on 54H60 propeller coming adrift from its 3000 horsepower turbine in a test cell--13 foot diameter, about 600 pounds, it climbed the wall, sawed a hole through the roof, and made its escape through a line of parked cars in the parking lot. Fortunately nobody was hurt.>
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