I see alot of people commenting on the fact that IBM seems to be constantly anouncing bleeding edge technology but we never actualy see it hit store shelves. I think it has alot to do with recouping R&D costs. If you spend 10,000,00 dollars in research inventing a 160 Gig drive wouldnt you want to squeeze as much money out of the marketplace as possible before releasing whatever you have next? Also its not like they really have alot to worry about with somebody else beating them to the market with similar tech. What other company has as many new patents a year as IBM. All and all I would say it is just good business.
I used to have the same problem in the Navy. Ever try and find a D.C. power supply for a VT100, or how about a head assembly for a RL02 disk drive? I finally started scrounging in local collage electronic surplus piles to keep my systems running. Just goes to show that systems made 20-30 years ago were built to last.
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I once had a RK05 disk drive that had a family of mice living in it. They built a little nest right under the card cage. Dont know if that counts...
I see alot of people commenting on the fact that IBM seems to be constantly anouncing bleeding edge technology but we never actualy see it hit store shelves. I think it has alot to do with recouping R&D costs. If you spend 10,000,00 dollars in research inventing a 160 Gig drive wouldnt you want to squeeze as much money out of the marketplace as possible before releasing whatever you have next? Also its not like they really have alot to worry about with somebody else beating them to the market with similar tech. What other company has as many new patents a year as IBM. All and all I would say it is just good business.
I used to have the same problem in the Navy. Ever try and find a D.C. power supply for a VT100, or how about a head assembly for a RL02 disk drive? I finally started scrounging in local collage electronic surplus piles to keep my systems running. Just goes to show that systems made 20-30 years ago were built to last.