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Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

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Washing-machine-sized disks? Bloody Luxury. We had two Fastrand drums, two tons each they weighed, had to have special floor reinforcement. And they only stored 262 MB each!

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