On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
> > computers, the service representative came to the site, opened a panel
> > on the operator console, and changed the 5 1/4" floppy disk. By doing
>
> I think I read somewhere that the 8" floppy was originally designed for
> this purpose.
IBM invented the floppy disk to distribute microcode updates.
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Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 01:39:35 BST