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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
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To: Marshall who wrote (26998)1/6/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: Klaus B. Biggers  Read Replies (1) of 33268
 
<Well, I'm unsure what's on those reels but they have huge hubs holes. >

yah.. I used to love to watch the vacuum auto feed.

<I remember some sort of hard drive you could see into, had a tall stack of disks about 18" in diameter. If I recall you could actually change the "cartridge" on those.>

Smoked plastic case, goldish color disks.. Beautiful.

<Never used the mylar tape, we still used paper on a CNC machine in the mid 70s.>

The mylar was backwards compatible with the paper. It just didn't tear as easily.

-klaus
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