Subj : FidoNet Technical Standards Committe
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Tue Mar 07 2023 11:04 pm

Hello Kurt!

Tuesday March 07 2023 10:37, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 >   Re: FidoNet Technical Standards Committe
 >   By: Maurice Kinal to Ward Dossche on Tue Mar 07 2023 05:33 pm

 WD>>> Wait, you're talking IBM-stuff perhaps ...

 > If Ward slips and mentions DASD, we know what flavor he ran.  :)

and what is wrong referring to DASD's even if the are later models of mass
storage devices ?

I find that HDD, SSD etc are easy to be referred to as DASD as a group term.
Now if we need to refer to drum storage and the like - hold on that is getting
way before your time and there is even older (very large) kit :)

Vincent

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