Subj : Re: Pascal
To   : Andy Ball
From : Scott Adams
Date : Sat Jul 12 2003 10:22 pm

 -=> Quoting Andy Ball to Jasen Betts <=-

 AB> @MSGID: 8:8/2 c8b8419d
 AB> Hello Jasen,
 
 JB> 5.25" floppy diskettes are flexible, but until you've
 > seen an 8" floppy disk you haven't seen "floppy".

 AB> It's been a while, but I've used them in the past.  I also worked with
 AB> 8" hard disks that had a transparent (perspex?) cover.  Head crashes
 AB> on those things were something to see. 
 AB> Thinking back to my school computer room days, mostly we had 5.25"
 AB> double-density disks, either single or double- sided.  It was a big
 AB> deal when we got a Winchester disk to serve the network.  :-) 
 AB> I've had a few that were 'flippies': with a write protect notch on
 AB> either side and two index holes.  You could format one side as a
 AB> single-sided double-density disk, and then flip the disk over and
 AB> format the other side too: handy if you had a single-head drive.  I
 AB> saw the same concept on some 3" Amstrad diskettes too. 

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