{"id":578,"date":"2009-07-27T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2009-07-27T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:33:48","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-shugart-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/578\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-shugart-sandwich","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Shugart Floppy Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/shugart_sandwich_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/shugart_sandwich_small.jpg\" alt=\"Shugart Mini-Floppy Ad - 1979\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above for the full advertisement.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just your typical late-1970s scene &#8212; a poofy-haired car salesman at home in a tie with a huge sandwich, a glass of milk, a large set of keys, a <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/oldads\/square\/Northstar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">generic S-100 bus computer<\/a> with a TV terminal, and a book called &#8220;Trout&#8221; behind him.<\/p>\n<p>He likes to fish.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the whole purpose of this scene is to push the use of &#8220;genuine&#8221; Shugart mini-floppies in the home.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/248\" target=\"_blank\">Shugart<\/a>, if you didn&#8217;t know, invented the mini-floppy.  And mini-floppies, if you didn&#8217;t know, are commonly known as 5 1\/4&#8243; diskettes today.  They replaced the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Floppy_Disk_Drive_8_inch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">giant 8&#8243; clown disks<\/a> people used before that <em>(read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/519\" target=\"_blank\">your comments about 8&#8243; floppies here<\/a>)<\/em>.  Sadly, these smaller disks held less data at the time, but that was a small price to pay for not knocking over your friends while swapping storage media.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From BYTE, July 1979 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong>  Do you still use 5 1\/4&#8243; floppies to store new or recent data?  If so, what are you using them for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click above for the full advertisement. Just your typical late-1970s scene &#8212; a poofy-haired car salesman at home in a tie with a huge sandwich, a glass of milk, a large set of keys, a generic S-100 bus computer with a TV terminal, and a book called &#8220;Trout&#8221; behind him. He likes to fish. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}