I have a number of 3.5" flops and a LOT of them can no longer be read,
even those written on the drive I'm using to read them.
YMMV/ScottGee1
On 2/7/07, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Doug Smith wrote:
> > On Wed February 7 2007 12:42 am, Moose wrote:
> >
SNIP!
> > I think you are correct on both accounts. Look how long the 3.5" floppy
> > discs
> > hung around.
> I've still got a bunch of 5 1/4 floppies and one computer that should
> read them if it still boots up - and I can remember how do operate it.
> ;-) And in the basement is a Morrow/Zenith Pivot lunchbox CP/M machine.
> It uses 8" floppies, I think, or is my mind playing tricks on me? Nah,
> probably 5 1/4. It also booted last time I tried it years ago, but I
> didn't know how to make it do anything. Same thing with the Apple II+
> and Heathkit XT clone. I gotta clean up the basement or turn it into a
> museum. :-)
>
> Do you know how floppies originated? IBM was making controllers for its
> SNA remote distributed processing systems and need a way to
> distribute/boot/update the firmware. They invented a magnetic portable
> medium for that use, which was the first 8" floppy. I remember when my
> brother was adapting 8" floppies as mass storage devices for TRS-80s.
>
> Moose
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