IBM 9331-011 8" External Floppy Drive - eBay 183038271095

Terry Stewart terry at webweavers.co.nz
Thu Feb 1 16:57:03 CST 2018


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> DOS/Windoze will have absolutely no idea how to understand what is on the
> disk.
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> Makes me thinks of the time a few months ago when a lab on our campus
wanted me to read some 8 inch disks in the archives for them.  The IT
manager said "I think they are IBM-compatible" (and by that he meant IBM-PC
compatible i.e MS-DOS).   I thought "yea, right."

They weren't of course.

Terry (Tez)


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