May be they meant 12" laser discs. On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 18:23 Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 12:00, Radoslaw Skorupka < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I just found information in some book that IBM mainframes used 12 inch > > floppy diskettes. Late 70's. > > > > Anybody heard about such diskettes? > > > > No, and they almost certainly never existed. Well perhaps in a lab > somewhere, but every wacky thing was in some lab at some point, but was > never shipped to a customer. > > There is a remarkable amount of carelessness in a remarkable number of > technical/historical books. Some of it can be excused because the authors > were not "there" at the time, and are writing history from today's > perspective. But a lot is just laziness and lack of fact checking. > > We can see this kind of thing already developing in this short email > conversation, where some people just jumped on to say oh yes, "they" were > used in the IBM xxxx, but either didn't read carefully or didn't care > enough, and they were agreeing with "8 inch" floppies. Not blaming anyone, > but that's how these things happen. Now when some AI picks it up as > training data it will happily halucinate a 12 inch floppy into existence. > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
