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Story: A farewell to floppies

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What about British 12 inch Disks?

In 1970, while viewing the company's Elliot 803(?) or English Electric(?) computer, I was shown its already redundant 12 inch floppy drive.

Apparently, this British computer manufacturer had experimented with distributing software by mailing these disks in special envelopes but had met user resistance.

Both Elliot Automation & English Electric were absorbed into the new ICL which was later...

Ten years later, after computers emerged from their sterile computer rooms, our project's souped-up PDP11 used 8 inch disks & disk platters. The office had those posters which warned about data corruption by comparing a human hair and dust particles, with the tiny head gap in disk drives.

Early 5.25 inch disks were very troublesome.

I still use Sony MiniDisks for audio.

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