[geeks] Software Bloat

[Ken Hansen]

Teraks? No.

8" Floppies, sure got one right here ;^P <ducks>

I have seen them used for CP/M machines, and as boot/IPL images for 
mainframe controllers (terminal concentrators)...

Ken

On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 01:38 AM, Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch 
wrote:

> Ken Hansen, reeling from the shock, managed on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 
> 11:13:36PM -0500 to scrawl:
>> Assuming you mean the 5 1/4" floppy ones... then no, there were many
>> different formats of floppies (hard/soft sector, # of tracks,
>> pre-formatted/unformatted, etc.)...
>>
>> Ken
>
>  At Rutgers in the Early '80s, we used 8" floppys on TERAKs
>
>  anyone remember those things?
>
>
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