I have a feeling that the model 370 that I worked on had a floppy drive
to provide the IPL (initial programme load, or boot). Since that was
in about 1973 it must have been an 8" floppy.
Chris
On 2 Mar 2004, at 12:43, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> To the best of my recollection IBM developed the 8" floppy originally
> for updating the microcode on IBM mainframes. The next use was the IBM
> DisplayWriter product, one of the earliest dedicated word processors
> with a display screen (as opposed to typewriter based systems such as
> the IBM MTST and MCST). From there it spread into use in the new field
> of micro computers... especially the S-100 bus machines. I think the
> TRS-80 was one of the last users of 8" diskettes before the 5=1/4's
> came
> along.
>
> Did I get it right?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> (an old IBM guy)
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