Gary Kildall was a great man and it's a shame Bill Gates took his place. Gates has NOT made the world a better place.
Yes.
And there it is, a 9" floppy disk. They didn't hold much data. We were running early PC based test systems with vendor modified CP/M operating systems 1982-on.
You mean an 8" floppy? The image looks like a 5 1/4"
IDK. I didn't enlarge the thumb lol!. Yes, probably 8", maybe the plastic envelope was around 9" ... some of the nuts in the lab would cut 2 sides of the 9" envelopes and wore them as floppy hats when goofing off.
The 5 1/4 was the new and improved version. Then the more durable 3 1/2 floppy (in a thin hard plastic case and sliding window) came along (used HP controllers, Apple Lisa, Apple Mac, ...) 1983-1984. Portable data storage was a fast moving target back then, around the same time of VHS vs Betamax wars.
None of my CP/M machines are new enough to use anything other that 5 1/4"
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