Steve McCrystal wrote:

>** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor  Sat, 10
Jan 2004 20:11:16 +1000 
> 
>Mike,  
>  
>
>>Serial as in U-Serial-Bus floppy, i guess  
>>    
>>
>If anyone is interested, I have a RS-232 connected 8" floppy drive
available CHEAP! Holds (as I recall) a whopping 150K, and the enclosure
measures about 14" x 20"! 
> 
>I had the thing working on a Commodore 64 at one time.
>
Hi Steve,

Yes!  I remember the 8" IBM ones - almost as much a PITA - being
*really* floppy - but they were better than 7-hole ASCII
puched-paper-tape, especially when the toothed drive wheel ripped all
the center paper-feed holes out of the tape, as it accelerated on
startup, e.g. on a PDP-8/9 from DEC  :-( 

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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