[ale] a moment of silence please

Lightner, Jeff jlightner at water.com
Wed Apr 28 09:06:41 EDT 2010


When I worked at a place with the IBM System 34 (we were cutting edge so
upgraded to System 36) we had an 8 inch floppy auto loader for backups.
I believe it held 10 or 20 floppies.

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To: Mike Harrison; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

On 04/28/2010 08:21 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Hmm. Maybe I should throw out some cruft...
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> I've self-limited myself to one large closet SHELF (not the whole
closet)
> for such memoriabilia.. and a small shelf next to my desk of
> display-worthy items. It takes some discipline, but it can be done.
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> At work I have recently made several trips tossing/donating anything
less
> than 2ghz/1gb ram to make room for new (to us) cabinets and servers.
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I remember 8" floppies as well as 10.1MB 2 platter disk drives, where 
one platter was internal and sealed and the 2nd platter was removable in

it's case. And I also had (may still have) Windows for 286 2.0 of course

all on floppies.
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