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To: Swordmaker; outofsalt
> It depends. Are they 10", 8 ¼", or the 3 ½" floppies?

Didn't you mean: Are they 8", 5¼", or 3½" floppies?

I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...

10 posted on 03/22/2017 2:53:42 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

When the MIS department which I’m a part of started a mass cleanup and purge last year, the boss found a couple of what looked like 10” floppies still in the cardboard.


14 posted on 03/22/2017 3:54:06 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...

When I worked in some IT groups a couple decades ago, we were still using equipment with 8 inch floppies. Old equipment from the 1970s, but government was still using it into the 1990s.

15 posted on 03/22/2017 4:01:43 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...

I was having a brain fart for the 8" size. . . but there were 10" floppies for a while. They had a clamp down transport that was sort of reminiscent of a record player with a lid. There weren't too many of them around. The dentist I work for did some for had an old computer that used them to load the system on the computer. He kept the system disks in an old 78 RPM record album. He had to reload the system about every two weeks or so or every time there was a power failure. My recollection was they were 128K and IIRC the system was THEOS. I don't even remember the name of the computer which had a built in keyboard and an eight or nine inch green screen monitor, also built in. The OS and data was later moved to a PC using yes, 5 ¼" disks. The 5MG HD platter on that old system was about 20" in diameter and was housed in a separate cabinet. . . and had to be driven to San Francisco to be defragged by the manufacturer about every three months or so.

The last time I ever saw any 10" floppies was a box of five of them were for sale for one dollar at an electronic surplus store called HSC in Sacramento. They had a main store down in Sunnyvale.

17 posted on 03/22/2017 5:15:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...

You lucky bastard. I once had to boot a DEC 8810 running Ultrix off 8" floppies. Ugh.

21 posted on 03/22/2017 7:11:13 PM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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