Weird 8-inch floppy disk

[Mattis Lind]

Those type of 8 inch disks are used in the Incoterm series intelligent
terminals. Here is a little bit of information about my Incoterm terminal:

http://www.datormuseum.se/peripherals/terminals/incoterm-spd-20-20

The disks I have are made by Verbatim.



2014-12-02 7:12 GMT+01:00 David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Josh Dersch wrote:
>
>  On 12/1/2014 9:53 PM, David Griffith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I found a ten-pack of 8-inch floppy disks that have me confused. They're
>>> from STAM@, a name I've never heard of before.  It's clear that they're
>>> hard-sectored, but the index and sector holes are along the outer edge.
>>> There's also a notch cut into the corner. Both of these appear to be done
>>> in an attempt to restrict users to a single vendor of floppies.
>>>
>>> Here are some pics:
>>> http://661.org/images/weird-floppy-front.jpg
>>> http://661.org/images/weird-floppy-back.jpg
>>>
>>
>> Those look suspiciously like floppies for the Memorex 650/651 -- the
>> first commercially available read/write floppy drive (1972).  I just picked
>> up a 651 myself (mostly because it looks cool, I can only hope to someday
>> have a machine to use it with...)  If you're willing to spare one of those
>> disks (so I have a matching set) let me know... :).
>>
>
> Would you like all of them?  Got anything interesting to trade?
>
>
> --
> David Griffith
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