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		mbalyuzi on March 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using 8-inch diskette drives with a PC Ha, I pretty much got into computing around then as a kid when my dad would bring one of those very same QEC 380Zs home for the summer vacation. Or a Commodore PET, with the built-in tape drive. Loved the mad clicking between the floppy drives when copying files around with pip. Memories...

zabzonk on March 29, 2021 [–]

Would that have been Hushank (sp?) Balyuzi? I remember him well.

mbalyuzi on March 29, 2021 | [–]

Yup

zabzonk on March 30, 2021 | | [–]

Oh well, if he still around (I'm nearly not - heart) please remember me to him (he may well not remember - we didn't work very closely together) - I'm Neil Butterworth, used to work with Dr. Mick Bazin.

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