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



"Scott Alfter" <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote in message 
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> 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. :-)

Lucky you!

>I suspect they never used floppy disks of any sort,

Bzzzzzz, wrong answer!

IBM invented a floppy disk (8")  for loading microcode into their 370 
mainframes.

-Alex.