DC>> I'be seen those 8" discs.  There were still being sold at the
 DC>> time I bought my first PC.

 ml>> those on the other end of the banch... anyway, this machine has a
 ml>> 8inch flopppy drive and a 30meg hard drive... that hard drive weighs
 ml>> some 50+pounds... the unit was given to me at a time when i was
 ml>> collecting old dead hard drives and using the platters in them for
 ml>> making clocks with... this one was going to be a table clock as i
 ml>> don't think a 50+pound wall clock is a good idea :wink:

 DC> Are you serious about the weight of it?  Who made it?

IBM... it is an original System36 machine... and a very small one at
that... i'm estimating the weight and that from just trying to move the
whole machine... it takes two men a dog and a goat to get it started
moving...

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