[PLUG] long-term data storage
Kyle Accardi
sandbox at pacifier.com
Sun Mar 23 14:21:01 UTC 2003
Russell Senior wrote:
> I've never had an 8-inch drive, though I was in possession of some
> 8-inch media for a short period in the mid-1980's before I passed it
> along to a geeky hacker-type at OSU, who exhibited an excessive
> interest in them reminiscent of own more recent interest. I seem to
> recall that despite being physically larger, they had a capacity of
> only 180K (or something similar).
My first system (Z80 CP/M) had 2 of them (Shugart 801? + 2 spares) I do have
some media, mostly term papers and silly teen agnst poetry. Don't know if
the drives still exist in my folk's basement, but I've never seen a Linux
driver. Don't think the h/w interface is the same as today's floppys either.
So the question is: Is there any practical way to run those wonders of
yesteryear?
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Kyle Accardi
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