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You have me on the 8".  Saw them when I was really getting started but 
never got to actually use them.

Last night my 8yr old said a CD is like a record only smaller.  I tried
explaining the difference in how they work.  



Thus spake Greg Freemyer (greg.freemyer at gmail.com):

>    On 9/1/05, Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
> 
>      5MB?
> 
>      C64 with an external 5.25" and a TAPE.  I remember getting REAL excited
>      when I could re-notch it and double the storage.  Then the 3.5" drives
>      let us REALLY up the storage on the BBS.
> 
>      Before that was a sinclair but that didn't "really" have external
>      storage, just the carts.
> 
>    I was sticking to "rigid disk" storage.  I started out with very slow 8"
>    floppies for storage.  90KB?
> 
>    I remember being very excited when we bought a dual 8" floppy drive pair
>    for $2200, dual density, double sided.  I've forgot who made them, but the
>    standard at the time was worm drive controlled heads.  The ones we bought
>    were moved by magnetic heads (like a speaker).  Ultra fast.  (whatever
>    that meant at the time.)  The 5MB harddisk was a upgrade a year or two
>    later.
>    Greg
>    --
>    Greg Freemyer
>    The Norcross Group
>    Forensics for the 21st Century

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