15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
8:54 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:27 AM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I have the platters from one of these drives. One of the "youngsters"
brought
in platters from a 5 1/4" drive to show off his IT cred. Then one of the
older
youngsters brought in a ~9" platter from some SMD drive. I brought in the
~14" platter from a very old DEC drive that crashed (RK04 sticks in my
head, but I might be wrong).
Perhaps this is what he's thinking about?
Warner
I've been contacted by a teacher who's looking for any information about
12" floppies. Am I imagining that they really existed? I'm sure I've seen
one or seen adverts for them, maybe at Bletchley Park. Others he's
contacted think he's getting confused with 12" laser discs but I'm not so
sure.
First I've heard of them :-)
I wonder if he's thinking of the 14" hard disk cartridges, perhaps the
front loading
ones used in things like the RK05 drive.