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Originally Posted by Boomer
I had to laugh about what you said about the guy who was doing all that stuff. I don't know what you meant by "platters" but I instantly thought of that long ago group who sang "Smoke Gets in You Eyes." And I was not sure about the "clean room" part either, but I think it might be a computer term......
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Boomer
Look at it platters as if they are a stack of old 45 rpm records on a spindle. They have enough room between each record (platter) for the read / write head (needle) to access the record and access the music (data). Now compress that down into something the size of your iPod and you have a hard drive.
The clean room is a totally dust free room where the hard drives and other electronic things like chips are made or assembled. I am sure you have seen pictures of people working on say NASA satellites in white outfits assembling things, that is a clean room.
As far as playing with computers I go back to the old Altos computer days. That was even before the IBM PC.