[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

Fred: Please quote the current version of the oral history, It says: Porter: Jimmy said that you guys got together with the guys at Wang in a dark bar one night and, after a discussion, you decided on the size of what the smaller diskette should be and there was a cocktail napkin on the bar which was 5 1/4" square <laughter> napkin <inaudible>. That's Jimmy's story. [Ed. note: Contacted in 2009, both Adkisson and Massaro stated that there was never any such meeting in a bar with Dr. Wang] 5.25 and 3.5 Floppy Disk Oral History Panel (computerhistory.org) <https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102657925 -05-01-acc.pdf> at page 10 Will you now stop promulgating this fable? Tom -----Original Message----- From: Fred Cisin [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 3:34 PM To: Fred Cisin via cctalk Subject: [cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet] BTW, I first heard the story in the late 1980s? My recollection was that it was in a sidebar in a magazine article. I can't currently find that. Massaro's denial of it <http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/5.25_3.5_Flo ppy_Drive/5.25_and_3.5_Floppy_Panel.oral_history.2005.102657925.pdf> http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/5.25_3.5_Flop py_Drive/5.25_and_3.5_Floppy_Panel.oral_history.2005.102657925.pdf was 2006? The story was about the diskette size. Massaro's story is about the size of the DRIVE, and making a cardboard mockup in the backseat of a car. Unless Adkisson comes forward, and reasserts the validity of the story, then it is unlikely.