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Hey guys, you know what I just got given?
It took me a while to work out what it is. It calls itself a PD
cartridge. But it turns out that if you slide the bit plastic shutter
back, there's a CD-ROM inside it.
Wow! I haven't seen one of those for, like, years! Damn, surely they
don't even *make* these any more. Heh. Maybe I should denate it to a
museum or something? :-D
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Invisible wrote:
> Hey guys, you know what I just got given?
>
> It took me a while to work out what it is. It calls itself a PD
> cartridge. But it turns out that if you slide the bit plastic shutter
> back, there's a CD-ROM inside it.
>
> Wow! I haven't seen one of those for, like, years! Damn, surely they
> don't even *make* these any more. Heh. Maybe I should denate it to a
> museum or something? :-D
>
I think I still have some. From the days when optical disks started. I
think they were physically compatible with existing optical disk (have
some of those too) while internally they were just CDROMs. Best of both
worlds. BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
I also have some tapes for a tape drive and probably we still have a
20MB removable hard disk for a PDP-11 somewhere in the department.
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andrel wrote:
> I think I still have some.
Advanced! LOL.
> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
Guy at college was telling me how glad he was when those went out.
Apparently the ladies used to like to fold them up (!!) to fit in their
handbags - and then wonder why they didn't work the next day.
And who says stupidity is a modern phenominon?
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Invisible wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>
>> I think I still have some.
>
> Advanced! LOL.
>
>> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
>
> Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
I think you are referring to the 5 1/4 inch ones, at least those were
more common when the concept of a PC was introduces. I really mean an 8
inch one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Origins.2C_the_8-inch_disk
>
> Guy at college was telling me how glad he was when those went out.
> Apparently the ladies used to like to fold them up (!!) to fit in their
> handbags - and then wonder why they didn't work the next day.
>
> And who says stupidity is a modern phenominon?
>
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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
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:34:40 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Hey guys, you know what I just got given?
got given? o_O
>It took me a while to work out what it is. It calls itself a PD
>cartridge. But it turns out that if you slide the bit plastic shutter
>back, there's a CD-ROM inside it.
>
>Wow! I haven't seen one of those for, like, years! Damn, surely they
>don't even *make* these any more. Heh. Maybe I should denate it to a
>museum or something? :-D
Have you ever seen a Laser Disk? I used to watch videos on them. They were basically
12" CDs.
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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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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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andrel wrote:
>>> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
>>
>> Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
> I think you are referring to the 5 1/4 inch ones, at least those were
> more common when the concept of a PC was introduces. I really mean an 8
> inch one.
Oh, you might be right...
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> Have you ever seen a Laser Disk? I used to watch videos on them. They were
basically 12" CDs.
Yeah. But analogue, appparently. No, I've never seen one, only heard
about them...
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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