On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:45:10 +0000, Larry wrote:

At Cornell University, way back when..., I was honored by being allowed
to peek into a room containing a huge IBM DRUM DRIVE. It stored many KB,
er, ah, temporarily, until a truck drove by on the street

I worked at Cornell for a while in the mid to late 60s. At that time
the main campus system had graduated to IBM 2314 disks which packed a
whopping 7.294 megs into a washing machine sized cabinet. Most of the
campus was running on a 360/65 mainframe with 512KB of main memory.
Nowadays you couldn't even boot up WinXP on a box of that size let
alone run an entire university. People used to wonder why the 360/65
used to slow down at busy times even though it had cost all of those
millions.