5" floppy?.

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Now we have an auto industry that is mixing SAE and metric, much like UK a
> > long time ago, other than the lack of Whitworth.
>
> As I mentioned a week or so ago, I've just bought an HP59309
> HPIB-interfaced clock. None of my HPIB cables will fit it. The reason is
> that it's sufficiently early to have 6-32 UNC jackposts on the HPIB
> connector, rather than the M3.5 metric ones that came later, and nobody
> has done the conversion (new jackposts). I'm not going to do it either,
> something that old should be kept original. I'll jute replace the locking
> screws at one end of one of my (many) HPIB cales.

This is a bit of a headscratcher for me.  Why bother worrying about if the
screws are original?

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