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10 Oct 2024 21:13:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Old technology  
From: Kyle
Date: 13 Feb 2008 14:48:26
Message: <28i6r3d5nda0kf6u1sej6f2kshvda7il1j@4ax.com>
On 13 Feb 2008 12:08:17 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:32:39 +0100, andrel wrote:
>
>> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
>
>You bet.  Used to do system backups on an IBM System/34 using 8" 
>diskettes that were loaded into a 10-disk magazine.
>
>Jim

I used to repair typesetting equipment that used 8" floppy drives.  We used to have to
break out an oscilloscope and Dysan disk occasionally to align them.  Those were the
days, huh?


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