Floppy disk sizes ( was Re: Compaq Portable III fails POST? )

On 8/31/2006 at 8:07 AM Nico de Jong wrote:

>My customer was so hysterical about throwing things out,
that I regularly
>had to come and take a disk out of the drive, as it had
come out of the
>envelope 

I recall a project that took four people several months and
beat its
completion deadline.  All of the source was stored on a
stack of 8" SSSD
floppies (ISIS-II on an Intel MDS800).  Management was so
ecstatic that
they had T-shirts printed up and gifted the department with
a bunch of
(rather cheap) champagne and hors d'oeuvres.   Sometime
during the evening,
some wayward bubbly soaked the stack of floppies and no one
noticed until
the next day that they were a sticky mess.  We removed each
cookie from its
jacket, washed it off and installed it in a new jacket--and
then promptly
made some backup copies.

No one ever owned up to the spillage.

Cheers,
Chuck