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I was part of a group of mostly retired engineers from Segate, AT&T, FAA, GE and other large organizations. I was way out of my league but loved hearing the stories the early days. The GE engineer said the early hard drives they built had a room all to itself, a clean room of course and hydraulics to spin the platter and move the huge heads.
He said the morning maintenance was for an employee to go in, and mop the top platter as some dust always settled on the platter. It was millions of dollars of hard drive.
The AT&T was engineer of the year at AT&T twice. Once in the 1970s and once in the 80s for his designs for long distance switches, and recording the number called, and the length of the call for billing purposes.
It got to be like the 4 Yorkshire-men Monty Python skit one night and I loved it with stories of early computing days from the big players.
I miss those guys.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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