17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
<In mail Perry E. Metzger said:>
"Jim Sewell" says:
A friend of mine that repaired computers said he ran across an old disk drive that was used in WWII.
There were no disk drives in WWII. There were barely computers. Hell, there was barely magnetic audio storage -- on steel wire!
He said "the war", perhaps it was Korean? To paraphrase McCoy, "Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a historian!" Jim -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims@mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73