[Coco] George's CNC Machine (WAS: Something else)

[richec]

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> With the 360, people had the ability to "use the future", 20 years ahead
> of time. I don't know if any graphics displays were created for use with
> a 360, but it would be interesting to find out. After reading about the
> DataCell technology - that is really amazing - up to 3 GB of storage, in
> the mid-1960s!
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Oh Gawd! Those datacells almost put Ohio Edison out of business! They worked 
by pulling strips of oxide coated mylar out of storage container and then 
wrapping them around a drum to be read. All that movement... all that 
timing... didn't work for us in the USAF and for sure didn't work at Ohio 
Edison. In the end IBM had to hijack a train load of 2314 disk drives and 
install them in our machine room to save the day and company. Ya know, when 
the president of the company is calling us lowly folks on the mainframe and 
asking "How ya doing?"...  things are not good 8-) With that I'll end this. 
We can take it offline if we want to continue.