25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
5:59 p.m.
On Monday (11/24/2008 at 09:35AM -0000), Antonio Carlini wrote:
I tripped over this page (discussing Max Burnett's collection):
http://www.acs.org.au/ictcareers/index.cfm?action=show&conID=max
and this part confused me:
"A local Intel executive recently found his family tree on a 5in floppy,
but even in the citadel of chip development, anything that could read
the disk had long since gone for scrap. "A couple of clicks" and Max had
it back on a modern floppy"
Was there a 5" floppy format? I wouldn't be surprised to find out yet
another format that I've never come across before, but I don't recall it
cropping up here.
I think there were a lot of typos in that article and the captions under
the pictures. When I first looked at it, one of the pictures showed
someone holding up a 9" floppy. I was going to send a link to that
just to keep the fun rolling on this thread... but when I went back
later in the day, the caption had been corrected to say 8". Dang.
That's no fun.
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Chris Elmquist
mailto:chrise at pobox.com