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Comment by SoftTalker

21 hours ago

Aha so that answers my question about why they haven't at least switched to USB thumb drives for their sneakernet. These aren't PCs. Probably minicomputers such as a TI-990 or similar. They don't have USB ports.

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dboreham  17 hours ago

That said the 3.5" drives were actually electrically compatible with the double density 8" SA-800 drives.

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