The PS/2 was certainly not introduced in 1977, and the Apple Lisa 2 with a
3.5" drive which was introduced in 1984 arguably predated the Macintosh (and
the PS/2).
But the ACT Apricot was launched in 1983 with 3.5" floppies. I recall doing
project work for the British Post Office in 1985. Use of the Apricot, being
a British made PC, was a requirement. Getting hold of the disks was
something of a challenge!
ACT had started out importing from the US the Victor 9000, an 8088 16-bit PC
which predated the IBM PC.
But I don't think any of the above ever had 8" floppies!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Johan Malmstrom
Sent: 04 March 2004 07:46
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Subject: [OM] Re: [OM][OT] 8 inch floppies
Mickey must mean 1977? The mac was introduced 1984 with a 3,5" floppy.
/ Johan
Den/At 04-03-04 03.06 skrev/wrote "Chuck Norcutt"
<[chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx]>:
> April 1987 was when IBM introduced the first 3-1/2" floppy on the PS/2
> announcment (720KB on the first go). The Xerox guys must have been
> using up some old stock.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Mickey Trageser wrote:
>
>> In 1987, the Xerox Baby Star (with the GUI after which Apple modeled
>> their Mac environment) used dual 8" floppies. One to boot and one for
>> applications.
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