On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:40:03 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx wrote:

> When I was packing up old computer stuff a few weeks ago for our move, I
> ran across a storage case filled with old 3.5¡ discs. I asked my 10 year
> old if she knew what they were, and her response was, ´is it an old Atari
> cartridge?¡ LOL

About 10 years ago a donated a 8" floppy disk drive where you
switched tracks VIA a knob. It had an LED readout of the sectors it
was on along with lights for reading or writing. It was 10"x10"x24"
long. I was told by the people at the organization I donated it to,
that the track knob was used by early version of CP/M and
corresponded to the user areas (similar to partitions of hard
disks). Which totally made sense as there was 16 positions on the
knob, but an 8" disk had more than 16 tracks (64 or 96 IIRC).

I had inherited the drive with a house I had rented for a couple
years and had never actually used it.

-sw