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Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?

Scott Alfter wrote:

(snip)

At first, your subject line brought up the thought "floppies for a
System/360?"    Leaving off the "K" from "360K" had that effect.



The weird thing is that I'm nowhere near old enough to have ever used one of
those beasts. :-) I suspect they never used floppy disks of any sort, let
alone 5.25" floppies.


Not S/360, but S/370.  They were invented to hold microcode
for some S/370 machines, which was loaded into RAM control
store from the floppy at IMPL time.  (Initial MicroProgram Load).

Note that you don't boot a 360 or 370, you IPL it.  That is,
Initial Program Load.

-- glen