14 Jan
2025
14 Jan
'25
10:09 a.m.
On 2025-01-14 6:29 a.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Floppies were later used for data-entry (1973, 33FD
for 3740). In those
days, data entry was for "mainframes". That was the "first" to use
the
soft sectored format, which became the "standard". ("3740 SSSD
format")
It held same data as 3000 cards. And, it did not require diagonal magic
marker lines on the deck, since dropping it did not rearrange the records!
I was thinking files, not data entry.
Could one write card data to them?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com