8 Apr
1999
8 Apr
'99
3:56 a.m.
At 09:43 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
People today don't realize that the old
systems used a floppy like present systems use a hard
drive, almost all the
time, which is a heck of a lot of wear for a contact media.
I used to work for Burroughs and they had a computer that used 8"
floppys that spun continously. Burroughs said to replace the disks every
100 hours. I have no idea how long they would actually run before failing.
Does anyone know? I have a CPM machine that spins it's 5 1/4" disk
continously but I haven't run it enough for a disk to fail.
Joe