Heatkit 5 1/4 floppies

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Apr 8 10:56:07 1999

At 09:43 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:

People today don't realize that the old
>systems used a floppy like present systems use a hard drive, almost all the
>time, which is a heck of a lot of wear for a contact media.

   I used to work for Burroughs and they had a computer that used 8"
floppys that spun continously. Burroughs said to replace the disks every
100 hours. I have no idea how long they would actually run before failing.
 Does anyone know? I have a CPM machine that spins it's 5 1/4" disk
continously but I haven't run it enough for a disk to fail.

   Joe
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 10:56:07 BST