Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: What is this?

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:31:01 -0500, Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>
wrote:

Tell me about the grey box...does it look old and well made, or does it
look like a post 1950 packing crate that has been painted gray, or is
that grey. Does it have a hole in the center as if it rotated?

My first guess is that it is an early hard drive disk, but that of course
is on the basis of almost no data.

The box isn't anything fancy, just wood thick enough to hold the disk, with a green
felt liner.

It's definitely not a hard drive disk, this thing would have major rotational inertia. I've
posted a picture of it with a description at:

<http://www3.sympatico.ca/mbt/Whuzzat/>

Mike
---
Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Gloucester, Ontario Canada

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.