Under the console on a 370/158 there was a large floppy
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jul 12, 2024, at 08:08, David Spiegel > <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Ditto. (I started late '70s) > >> On 2024-07-12 08:51, Ed Jaffe wrote: >>> On 7/11/2024 9:00 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >>> I just found information in some book that IBM mainframes used 12 inch >>> floppy diskettes. Late 70's. >>> >>> Anybody heard about such diskettes? >> >> >> When I first set foot in an IBM-mainframe computer room, the CPU and >> peripherals used 8"floppy diskettes for loading the internal code. >> >> I never saw a 12" floppy diskette used. >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
