RE: A commercial on WJIB!

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

 8".  Thanks...sorry....

I had one of these disks in my room as a memento...it was from the days
one of my uncles was taking some courses in computer programming.  I was
amazed at the size of it when I found it. Dunno if I still have it.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Larry A. Lovering wrote:

> 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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