10 Mar
1998
10 Mar
'98
2:13 p.m.
Phillip,
Thanks for the info. I picked up a bunch of original IBM disks that I
think are for a S 34. I wonder if they're worth preserving or should I
just reformat tem for use in my machines?
Joe
At 03:17 PM 3/9/98 GMT, you wrote:
Daniel,
Does the system 34 use *" floppy disks? I don't know anything about S34
but I think I got a bunch of disks this weekend and I think some them are
original disks for the S 34.
Joe
I don't know about Daniel's machine but every System/34 I've ever seen
does. It takes them either singly or in "magazines" of ten diskettes.
I recommend that anyone with a S/34 tries to get hold of some of the
empty magazines - or even full ones.
AFAIK, IBM's idea was you kept yor software, backups etc. in magazines,
unless it was 3 disks or fewer. I imagine most people did what people
nowadays will be forced to do - keep the disks in conventional boxes and
load the magazines immediately before insertion into the S/34.
Philip