[Cryptography] LUKS on ATA versus on SSD

[John Levine]

It appears that Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> said:
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>On 1/3/26 11:01 PM, Peter Gutmann via cryptography wrote:
>> Probably time to post a link to Lawrence Wilkinson's heroic resuscitation of
>> an IBM 360 model 30, ...

>I'm sad that it is gone, but it also sounds like it was a hellish 
>collection of engineering: Impressive it was once worth designing, 
>building, debugging, powering, and /servicing/…and also a good riddance. 

The 360/30 was a tour de force in that they managed to implement the entire S/360
instruction and I/O channel architecture on a tiny little 8 bit processor and it
really worked.  It was the most popular of the 360 line (other than the even smaller
360/20 which was only a subset.) They shipped thousands of them.

>Clearly early automatic computing was so valuable that it was /worth/ 
>such expensive Rube Goldberg contraptions. But look at that machine and 
>extrapolate forward…and the whole thing was clearly not scalable, 
>obviously there was only a limited future for the industry. But we 
>didn't extrapolate that technology, thank God.

Yeah, now we're all doing analogue computing like God intended.  

R's,
John

PS: True fact: I have a small K&E slide rule in my back pack, you never know,