"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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On 4/11/2010 11:02 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:26:41 -0500, Morris
wrote:

You might get a kick out of learning that the floppy disk was originally
developed to load the microcode into the ill-fated object-based FS (for
Future System) machines.

Nah, floppies were used on the 370/158s to load microcode, well before
FS.

Are you sure? The 158 was announced in August 2, 1972 about the time Dept
71J in East Fishkill

Ever run into a guy name of Dick Gomez back there?