[OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 question

[Chuck Norcutt]

To the best of my recollection IBM developed the 8" floppy originally 
for updating the microcode on IBM mainframes.  The next use was the IBM 
DisplayWriter product, one of the earliest dedicated word processors 
with a display screen (as opposed to typewriter based systems such as 
the IBM MTST and MCST).  From there it spread into use in the new field 
of micro computers... especially the S-100 bus machines.  I think the 
TRS-80 was one of the last users of 8" diskettes before the 5=1/4's came 
along.

Did I get it right?

Chuck Norcutt
(an old IBM guy)

Moose wrote:

  (Do you know the origin and original
> purpose of the original 8" floppies?). 


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