9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
5:32 a.m.
On 2014-07-09 02:22, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: best dos machine
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(IBM never called it "motherboard" due to use of the word "mother..."
<snip> Fixed drive (IBM didn't called it a "hard" drive)
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, A. P. Garcia wrote:
and don't forget to use our favorite numbering
system, hexidecimal, because ibm was too prudent to call it sexadecimal...
"FIXED" disk?? "FIXED" In a veterinary context??!?
No - "Fixed" as opposed to "Removable"
Remember big-boy machines had disk packs (Winchesters, etc) that you
swapped in and out.
In DEC speak: RK05s, RP0x and so forth.
And btw: the IBM XT originally came with 5.25" floppies the fixed hard
drive came later.
Dave.