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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: roadcat; wally_bert
In 1979 or so, I purchased a Shugart floppy drive for 8" diskettes, for about $400. I designed and wire-wrapped the interface adapter electronics, and wrote the software drivers (for my home brew operating system). A few years later I did the same thing with a pair of 5-1/4" drives. I found I liked the 5-1/4" drives better; the 8" models were clunky by comparison.

If there were 10" or 8-1/4" drives or diskettes, I never saw them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

16 posted on 03/22/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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