12 May
2013
12 May
'13
4:53 p.m.
On Sun, 12 May 2013, BE Arnold wrote:
Got them already. Those were easy. I've come to you guys for the
difficult stuff. :)
3" floppy,
3.25" floppy
2.9" floppy
3.9" floppy
2.5" floppy
2.8M 3.5"
The great "shirt pocket disk" debate, along with George Morrow's
suggestion to negotiate with the clothing industry to adjust shirt pocket
sizes
Floptical
Drivetec
3.5" without shutter
3.5" with manual shutter
(point out "pinch" arrow, and its residual presence on modern
"automatic"
shutters ("Oh, that's just to show which direction to put it into the
drive"))
brackets for mounting 3.5" drive in 5.25" bay
Hard sector
soft sector
300 Oersted V 600 Oersted media (360K V 12.M)
I'm interested in
Core memory
1/4 tape cart
21" fixed disk platter & head (NCR 656/CDC Hawk if I can ask (kick myself for
trashing my stack of them))
Various memory chips
Bernoulli carts
Syquest carts
WORM disc cart
What ever you think is interesting.
But not punch[ed] cards?
punch[ed} tape?
floppies?
reel to reel tape?
[USB] flash drives?
memory cards
CD? (include some of the ridiculous promotional odd shaped mini-CDs!) Rather than doing a strict timeline approach, I think
having the display
grouped by "family" might be more interesting. All the paper products in
one group,
IBM cards,
"Honeywell" etc. 45/90 column round hole
Royal/McBee edge punch
System 3 mini cards
aperture cards (with optical images and/or fiche)
Cauzin Softstrip
modern QR codes
software records bound in magazines
Vannevar Bush's Memex (and Goldberg's Rapid Selector that it was copied
from) from the 1940s/1950s
Get a bar napkin from the place where Shugart got advised to change from
8" floppies to bar napkin size.
floppies in another, etc. And in the case of floppies
for
example, I can show some crossover between floppies and other removable
media (ZIP device, etc.).
LS120
Zip
Jaz
Tape cartridges