RE: [tlug] Debian 3.0r1 keyboard timeout and mouse MIA

["James Cluff" <jc@example.com>]

Quoth Godwin Stewart (Mon 2003-02-24 11:02:24PM +0100):
>
> And Thus Spake Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> (on Mon, 24 Feb 2003
> 16:34:07 -0500):
>
> > > I guess I'm just old-fashioned since I even have a 5.25" 1.2MB
drive...
> >
> > Anyone still have a working 11" drive?
>
> OK. That beats me. I don't even *remember* 11" floppies!
>
> 8" floppies, yes, and I've used them, not 11" floppies.

Josh GloveFebruary 25, 2003 7:16 AM
>I wonder if I am mis-remembering. I thought that the first drives used
>11-inchers, and the 8" disks came later. A search of Google, however, seems
>to indicate that 8" disks were the first. I found scattered mentions of 11-
>inch disks... so maybe they just were never on the PC?

>Bugger if I know *why* I remember 11-inch disks. :)


What is a floppy?

James