RE: A commercial on WJIB!

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@genuity.net>]

Actually, they were 8" floppies.  I used them on an NEC APC (had an 8086
16-bit processor with 4 mb ram!)

-Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Sven
> Franklyn Weil
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: A. Joseph Ross
> Cc: Marc Lemay; boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: A commercial on WJIB!
>
>
> I think I've seen the thing in the window of some bookstore in Greenwich
> Village here in New York City.  Does it use those huge 10" floppies that
> were around before the 5.25" floppies?
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>
> > On 18 Apr 2000,  Marc Lemay wrote:
> >
> > And well into the 386/486 era, he was still happily using his TRS-80,
> > right up until his declining health forced him to stop writing.
>  I think
> > the computer was actually placed on display somewhere as "Isaac
> Asimov's
> > Computer" after he died.
> >
> >
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