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Subject: [OM] Re: 8 inch floppies
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:06:10 -0500
April 1987 was when IBM introduced the first 3-1/2" floppy on the PS/2 
announcment (720KB on the first go).  The Xerox guys must have been 
using up some old stock.

Chuck Norcutt

Mickey Trageser wrote:

> In 1987, the Xerox Baby Star (with the GUI after which Apple modeled their
> Mac environment) used dual 8" floppies. One to boot and one for
> applications.



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