8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

Gil Carrick gilcarrick at comcast.net
Sun Oct 9 18:47:56 CDT 2005


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> Actually, it's quite common for large-ish machinery to need 
> shipping bolts, clamps, etc to be fitted. I can think of a 
> lot of non-computer-related examples.

Lots of the older large disk drives had a restraining bolt that would lock
the heads into a retracted position when you were going to ship it. The CDC
9762 is one I am familiar with. 

Gil

> 
> -tony



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