Bear Bibeault wrote:I remember a colleague who had an RK05 disk that had been in a fire. The case was blackened and warped, and had opened on one side.
yes, for the young-ens, an RK05 "It stored approximately 2.5 MB on a 14", single-platter IBM-2315-style front-loading removable disk cartridge." and it replaces the decTape according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05. The platter was only about an inch high, but the drive was 6U. These days, if you are going to use 6U for storage, you expect to have hundreds of terabytes with lots of RAID redundancy.
Bear's friend probably had his whole career's worth of code, or maybe a customer's entire database, which was critical to save.