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Big Blue's development lab at Hursley turns 50

By Julian Goldsmith, 19 September 2008 12:42

The Dolphin cartridge drive is one of the many widely used devices that owes its existence to Hursley. It holds about 20MB of data…

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  1. 1. Ralph

    Very interesting. A pic of the Winchester disc (or disk) drive would've been a must I'd have thought. IBM do, as they've got one on prominent display, in Hursley.

  2. 2. Richard

    Interesting place: In the 1970s, I was shown the large room full of disk drives: All together, these totalled... *several hundred Mega Bytes.*

  3. 3. Chris P

    The Gulliver 62GV is a "Winchester" technology drive. I don't recall adding any more disks to it. When I worked on the design there was a 5Mb version and a 10Mb version. When we were finished with that we went to work on the Piccolo drive which had 8" disks

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