8 inch floppies

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Dec 13 18:10:03 CST 2019


On 12/13/19 2:54 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> MDS was my guess also.   The MDS boxes ran the standard CP/M distro from
>> DRI--no customization needed. (The same was true for MP/M--a second
>> console was provided via the current-loop interface).
>>
>> At any rate, it all fits.   I wouldn't be surprised if all the floppies
>> were SS FM ones.
> 
> The 2 sided ones could be a different system, or the user added a drive
> that could use them (or modified a drive - they look like they were used
> in hardware development), or he had a hole punch (a glimpse of one of
> those outisde of its sleeve would confirm)

Some could also be "flippies".  Those were made by several manufacturers.

--Chuck



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