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Oral History Panel on 8 Inch Floppy Disk Drives (2005) [pdf]
Author : grunthos
Score : 12 points
Date : 2022-07-04 10:08 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| krallja wrote:
| These CHM oral histories are so great - I love the ones about the
| 6800 and 68000, because Motorola didn't seem to keep historical
| records in the same way as Intel and others did, so this is the
| only way some of these stories have ever been told.
| Stratoscope wrote:
| Tangentially related, this showed up in my news feed today:
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| _It 's RAID. With Floppy Drives._
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| https://hackaday.com/2022/06/30/its-raid-with-floppy-drives/
| zh3 wrote:
| Takes me back to the whirrr-clunk of retries on DEC RX02's. Got
| into trouble for writing an RT11 driver for a Rodime 5Mb hard
| disk drive (no idea how many platters it had, it was full
| height); seems so insanely large at the time that I split it into
| 8 separate area (being used to 256Kb per 8" floppy and rarely
| filling that, having 8 drives with over twice the capacity each
| was amazing).
| mlyle wrote:
| Not quite related, but my oldest brother tells a story of an
| internship repairing 8" hard drives for CP/M machines... and
| having verified he'd fixed his first, picked it up, and went to
| stick it on the shelf. It hadn't fully spun down, so as he
| twisted his body the whole huge spinning mass gyroscopically
| precessed it out of his hands and it crashed to the ground in a
| million pieces.
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