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Ace Mercury Disc - 15 inch wheel cover; for MG Magnette and MGA. Also available for MG Midget and MGB with disc wheels.
500 MB IDE drive platters from an old Compaq server.
Whilst recycling an old Compaq server, I thought some of the parts needed to be recorded in history. This is one of the pictures.
If anyone knows any background about the item, please send me a comment.
Photo taken with a Canon 30D in Auto mode. The lens was a 18-55 mm and and the item was placed into a light tent.
2009
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This hard disk held a whopping 7.25 megabytes of storage, (the equivalent of about 5 of the now-obsolete 3-1/2" floppy disks).
Why there is no Applications folder shortcut, I don't know, but I do like the application icon and the background used here.
First car made by Zbrojovka Brno - this large weapons factory searched for new products, and began with automobile production on their own. The DISK was the first two-stroke car in Europe, it had also some original technical solutions (monocoque body, friction gearbox). The realization was a bit hasty, and most of the 75 cars had to be withdrawn for unreliability. The next models have been more conservative, but also much better and succesful.
Woohoo It took over 100 hours of disk crunching but alas I've managed to chart the dead maxtor drive which has been giving me grief for the last week. Now to find some free image crunching software.
The first production model, only approx. 50 have been sold, but the quality was very low and most of the cars have been buyed back by the factory. The construction was very progressive, but the production too hasty and mayn flaws have emerged soon. The workers had a popular saying: "DISK nám sežral zisk" (DISK ate away our profit).
The first serial produced car from Brno, marketed as a "open torpedo for four persons". The engine is original, interesting is the friction gearbox with coupled clutch/gear shift control.
www.recyclart.org/2009/03/floppy-disk-lamp/
Old floppy disk brought to life in the form of a nice pendant lamp !