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by ern_ave 61 days ago
8 inch floppies! wow.
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icedchai 60 days ago
My uncle had a business with an IBM minicomputer: a System/36. It was the size of a large freezer. It also used 8" floppies! It took a "magazine" of 10x 8" floppies and could swap between them. It looked like the system in the top photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36
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justin66 61 days ago
Yeah, that's extremely cool. The wiki page had me at:

The Datamaster was IBM's only 8-bit microcomputer and one of the few to use the EBCDIC encoding.

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MisterTea 61 days ago
The machine came with a few new boxes of 8" still in the cellophane.
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