2 Dec
2014
2 Dec
'14
1:12 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Josh Dersch wrote:
On 12/1/2014 9:53 PM, David Griffith wrote:
Would you like all of them? Got anything interesting to trade?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I found a ten-pack of 8-inch floppy disks that have me confused. They're
from STAM@, a name I've never heard of before. It's clear that they're
hard-sectored, but the index and sector holes are along the outer edge.
There's also a notch cut into the corner. Both of these appear to be done
in an attempt to restrict users to a single vendor of floppies.
Here are some pics:
http://661.org/images/weird-floppy-front.jpg
http://661.org/images/weird-floppy-back.jpg
Those look suspiciously like floppies for the Memorex 650/651 -- the first
commercially available read/write floppy drive (1972). I just picked up a
651 myself (mostly because it looks cool, I can only hope to someday have a
machine to use it with...) If you're willing to spare one of those disks (so
I have a matching set) let me know... :). 
