place your bets

[Chuck Guzis]

On 3 Mar 2007 at 8:44, Chris M wrote:

> TRS-80/Tandy 2,12,16,6000
> NEC APC
> IBM System/23 Datamaster
> Canon AS-100 (basically external,but all it's drives
> were seemingly)
> Xerox 16/8 (external)

Forget it--the number and types of pre-1983 systems using 8" drives 
is in the hundreds at least, particularly if you include "special 
purpse" machines such as CNC controllers and word processors.

There are anecdotes about a 12" floppy used in IBM mainframes, but 
I've never seen one.

Cheers,
Chuck