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Description: | 10-surface 14 inch disk unit with 6 disks mounted on rotating spindle, the whole on a cast alumuinium base. The disks can be removed. There is a rear white plastic shield that fits over an aluminium post on the base. A post at the side is presumed for mounting the reading heads. The base unit is made by ICL; the disk is an IBM disk. Paper label on disk "Plotter software JSK 10/70 001". JSK was Stephen Knowles, killed with his wife in a car crash while still in post. Pen writing on disk "Disk 001 Comp. Dept". The first hard disk of the University's ICL System 4. mainframe. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1969-1970 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | ICL/IBM | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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