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mezy said:
If you have tried a burn twice with same results, try downloading the ISO again and burn that.
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Yup will download the iso again, hopefully from another link.
 
Downloaded from another link, Rocky-9-KDE-86-64, haven't tried installing it yet, later in the day. :unsure:
 
Well I installed Rocky Linux and don't care for it! Won't except Thunderbird mail, which I've used forever and really not to user friendly. Another disc in the useless pile! Fun while it lasted, :flush:
 
A 5MB hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956.

May be an image of 3 people and outdoors
 
Gee- even in 1956 they had dongles?
 
John Turney said:
A 5MB hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956.

May be an image of 3 people and outdoors
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The NORAD SAGE Air Defense system I worked on for several years had 2 computers (one active and one standby). Each computer had 12 "magnetic Drums" which were essentially the predecessor to the later flat hard drives. Each drum had six sets of read-write heads that were staggered and mounted around the outside of the drum. Each set had 33 heads for the 32-bit word, plus a parity bit. The total capacity of 1 drum was, if memory serves, 150k words. Aligning these heads was such fun!

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Basil said:
The NORAD SAGE Air Defense system I worked on for several years had 2 computers (one active and one standby). Each computer had 12 "magnetic Drums" which were essentially the predecessor to the later flat hard drives. Each drum had six sets of read-write heads that were staggered and mounted around the outside of the drum. Each set had 33 heads for the 32-bit word, plus a parity bit. The total capacity of 1 drum was, if memory serves, 150k words. Aligning these heads was such fun!

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You were "high-tech". We still used analog computers for fire control.
 
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