>If you can remember the 5 1/4", how about the 8" floppy? Saw these on old >Wang PCs in the late 80's. Not sure if they were called "floppy", but >they pre-dated the 5 1/4" and were otherwise very similar. The 5 1/4" was >probably viewed as a big step forward.
Remember them?!? I've still got a machine that uses 8" floppies! And I recently got rid of 4 others that used them. (I still have a rather large supply of the floppies, something in the range of 350 of them) Until 2001 part of our payroll was done on an IBM System 23, and 8" floppies were its only means of storage. (IBM System 23s were what I just got rid of, my remaining machine that can use them is an IBM 5110, but it is no longer in normal use) And to bring this partly on topic, IIRC, there is a controller card that will let you connect an 8" floppy drive to an Apple II. (at least its brought the topic to Apple, even if it isn't an iMac specific topic) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
