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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Floppies [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] |
| Date | 2025-08-22 12:23 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <b2tlnlx7n5.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink) |
| References | (10 earlier) <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <l0kknlxj6r.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1088lbg$1agt7$1@dont-email.me> <9aadne5uMN4JgTX1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2025-08-22 09:30, c186282 wrote:
> On 8/21/25 10:40 PM, Paul wrote:
>> On Thu, 8/21/2025 6:43 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I know of this because back then I read an article in a computer
>>> magazine where they wrote a "driver" or something that multiplied the
>>> capacity of floppies, playing with the timings. The article went into
>>> all the gory details.
>>>
>>> I wonder how Linux implemented the floppy routines, though. At some
>>> point, someone had to write floppy handling code that worked on any
>>> PC, CPU and speed.
>>>
>>
>> Linux may have handled "better" floppy controller blocks than
>> the one in the example. Did Linux ever work with 8" floppy drives ?
>
> Never saw that. Linux came along well after 8-inchers.
> Support was likely seen as "unnecessary".
>
> I think reading 8-inchers would require custom interface
> hardware. May have once, briefly, existed but good luck
> tracking down anything now.
>
> Last box I had with 8-inchers, I just wired up a funky
> serial interface to an original IBM-PC and copied the
> data over that way. Somewhere I have a photo - nest of
> about ten discrete wires stuck into the ports :-)
>
>> I think the hardware had advanced a bit past that point.
>> Even our last machine with 8" floppy in it, the staff were basically
>> ignoring the floppy. Back when the only thing you owned was a floppy,
>> it was much more important that it work. Some of our server
>> configurations,
>> seemed to boot off the floppy :-) I think the print server worked that
>> way.
>> You'd boot the floppy and you had a print server.
>
> 8-inchers LOOKED impressive ... but they didn't HOLD
> very much nor were especially quick. I've still got
> a few of them around ... because they look cool, not
> because they're good for anything. A huge number of
> people even slightly younger than I am NEVER saw an
> 8-inch floppy.
>
> To paraphrase : "You call THAT a floppy ? Now THIS
> is a floppy !" :-)
>
> Hmmm ... remember the old removable-platter hard drive
> units ? 99.999% haven't. They'd probably try to remove
> the pak while it was still spinning :-)
No, I don't remember. Only saw them in books or movies :-)
>
> LAST one I ever saw ... weirdly, in the sonar niche
> of an attack submarine. Mil systems tend to be specced
> like ten or twelve years before you see actual product.
I was told a submarine history.
Someone bought a new computer, guaranteed. It was an Amstrad PC (maybe
the model with hard disk). Days later he came back to the shop, the
machine would not boot. The vendor handed over a new unit. A few days
more, the client came back with another broken machine. I think they
tried once more before the vendor started asked questions. Where are you
installing it? Well, you know, in our navy submarine {name}. (maybe they
were trying in the entire fleet of two or three subs, or only one,
dunno). The vendor quietly said that they would not supply them with any
more computers.
The computer died soon after they started the diesel engine, the
vibrations killed the computers :-D
Not knowing much about actual subs in our navy, I'm a bit surprised that
a diesel sub vibrates so much, though. Subs are supposed to be silent,
but perhaps they aren't when they run the old diesel.
>
> Anyway, try :
>
> https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s_drives_howto.html#dunfield
--
Cheers, Carlos.
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Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-22 00:43 +0200
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Re: Submarines [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-24 15:12 +0200
Re: Submarines [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-24 17:07 +0100
Re: Floppies [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-22 23:29 -0700
Re: Floppies [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-23 21:53 +0000
Re: Floppies [Was: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-24 11:24 +0100
Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-22 11:26 +0100
Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-22 10:00 -0400
Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-22 19:41 +0100
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