Fwd: CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 02, 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>On 5/2/2011 3:36 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>> Thought this might be of interest
>>
>> Richard
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>[..]
>>
>>> Can you guess what this is?...
>[...]
>
>Well, given that the HTML and the image were stripped when posting to this 
>list, it makes it tough to guess.  :-)

The links were in the message pointing to (a) the HTML that said
exactly what the plain text did, but much more verbosely, and (b)
the image was fine.

This disk appears to have been about the same size as the
head-per-track disks on the Burroughs Medium Systems we were
using in the late '60s and early '70s.  They had a 4ms average
access time to anything on the disk which was much faster than
most disk or drum storage of the time.

Bill
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