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

[Johan Malmström]

Den/At 04-03-02 10.28 skrev/wrote "Moose" <[olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx]>:

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

No... But I have used those beast. At my first employer we used them for
backing up our IBM S/38. I think it was about 4 or 6 boxes with 10 in each.
And well before that in school we hade them on the ABC 800 machines. But the
origin, well my guess would go to IBM as others have before me.

At my first employer we had a strange machine, called the puncher... I was
build for punching card and as far as I remember they had replaced the paper
card puncher with a disk drive for the 8-inch disk. So maybe the purpose is
that simple, replace punching cards.

/ Johan 

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