Re: "disk drives the size of top-loading washing machines"
At a certain well-known newspaper in the late 70s, two of us approached the machine room door and looked in. Two carpenters were inside. One had a length of 2x4 across one disk drive, and was sawing it in half. The other had a similar length propped against another drive and was banging old nails out of it.
We looked at each other. Not a word was said, but we suddenly remembered an urgent appointment elsewhere.
Both drives survived: All hail those CDC engineers!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
