Ahh, those were the days, when you could fit an OS into, what, 180k of disk
space?
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: 03 March 2004 01:45
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 question
Looks like Mark is the winner. I first ran into them in SNA controllers in
the early 70s, where they served the same basic function, operating system
intallation and updates and diagnostics.
Moose
md@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>>To the best of my recollection IBM developed the 8" floppy originally
>>for updating the microcode on IBM mainframes.
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>Close, the S/370's used the 8" floppy to load the microcode for the
processor.
>The first product to use the 8" floppy was the IBM 3830 controller for
>the 3330 disk storage. It was announced in June of 1970 and described
>as "a device which loads storage control programs and non-resident
>diagnostic programs".
> -mark
>
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