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Comment by SoftTalker

1 day 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  18 hours ago

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

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