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> 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all The storage medium itself, inside the (stiff) plastic case, was indeed floppy
by bch 5y ago
> 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all
The storage medium itself, inside the (stiff) plastic case, was indeed floppy
- acomjean 5y agoMy mom did translations on an IBM display writer that used 8” floppies. They were the floppier big brothers to the 5.25 “floppies” of the Apple/commodore and early pcs. Those 3.25 had a much stiffer shell. You are right that the disks inside were the same material. Over $7500 in last century dollars for a device with 160kb. I believe it auto saved though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Displaywriter_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Displaywriter_System
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