[ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 09/07/2010 04:13 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> I used to work on a PDP-1140 that was kinda that way.  Huge platters and
> perfect for frisbee or making clocks (but too big for skeet shooting --
> easy target).

Being a frisbee aficionado, I must say, flat disks do not fly well at 
all.  They tend to turn over and nose dive.  Thus, I suspect they were 
not 'perfect for frisbee.' :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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