On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:48:25 -0500, Kyle wrote:

> 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?

They were indeed.  We had an 8" drive in our AS/400 because payroll data 
was on the S/34, and hours were tracked on the AS/400.

I remember doing backups on a PDP-11 as well once upon a time.  I think I 
was 12. :-)

Jim

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