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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why IBM went for the 8088 -- The Untold Story (Seattle Comp.)
Keywords: S100 IEEE-696 SC-DOS Seattle MS-DOS IBM_PC
Message-ID: <1990May26.225910.22936@world.std.com>
Date: 26 May 90 22:59:10 GMT
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bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
>ever see an 8" floppy on any MSDOS machine?

Sure have -- I put one on the machine myself to transfer data files
between an AT and a System/32.  Quite a lot of fun, actually.  This
was in 1984 or 1985, I think.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com