8" hard sectored floppies

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Fri Jun 4 15:51:39 2004

>From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj_at_wps.com>
>
>On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 18:18, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>> > We used to pay $80 for a box of DSDD Dysan 8" floppies and align the
>> > disk drives every year with a Dysan alignment diskette and an
>> > oscilloscope. That's what it took for repeatable reliability. It sucked.
>>
>> ... and yet nobody was buying 8" Dysan alignment diskettes and new
>> shrinkwrapped Dysan floppies at $1 per diskette at VCF! My biggest
>> market segment was teachers who each wanted ONE diskette to wave in
>> the air when talking to classes about the days of dinosaurs.
>
>No, and you don't see people wearing onions around their neck anymore to
>ward off illness either.
>
>Man, like many others I used to do edits and huge (sic) compiles and
>library building and linking, HOONK HOONK HOONK for hours, every day,
>for however long an individual floppy lasted. (1.25MB each, seemed like
>a lotta space at the time.) THAT ate up floppies and drives! I put
>solidstate relays on the big AC motors and let them run down after some
>idle period, that helped.

Hi
 A handy thing to have is a handfull of bearings and a bearing
puller.
Dwight
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 15:51:39 BST