18 Sep
2014
18 Sep
'14
10:50 a.m.
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: "Smartcom II" package available
FYI , while not to disagree with the conclusion that this package is on
5.25 media,
there WERE MS-DOS machines that came with 8 inch floppies (as the only
floppies)
I have one of these : http://oldcomputers.net/nec-apc.html (which instead
of APC it
is lovingly refereed to as the "hernia-ator" since it's ridiculously
heavy.... :-) )
So, while I'm not sure there was Smartcom ever for this system, having it
on 8 inch
floppies would be the way to get it loaded...
Earl
From: Fred Cisin
The fact that it was ... in a package of similar
size does NOT mean
that it contains 8" disks.
Argh! I looked at the package for like 12 msec, hefted it for 29 msec to
see
what kind of noise it made / how the internal mass felt, and _guessed_,
based
on 17 nsec of thinking about it, that 'I suspect ... 8" floppies'.
Had I stopped to think, I probably would have come to the same conclusion:
for original PC; original PC only had 5.25 inch floppies (which I had to
look
up, I couldn't remember off the top of my head - my first was a KayPro AT)
--> probably 5.25" media inside - but I didn't, I wasn't that interested,
I
just wanted to find a good home for it!
(And no doubt the seller made the same mistake, which was why it was in
with
a bunch of 8" floppies...)