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    "Frank J. Lhota"  wrote:   
      
   > I do recall hearing that some early workstations used 8" floppies.   
      
   When I worked as a closed-captioner, there were a few shows from the   
   early-to-mid-'80s that we had to caption because they were being rerun   
   on some cable channel or another -- "Dynasty" and "Hill Street Blues,"   
   to name two.   
      
   They'd been closed-captioned when they originally aired, so in theory   
   all we would have had to do was take the original captioning output file   
   and edit it (to account for edits to the shows, longer commercial   
   breaks, electronic speed-ups, etc.).   
      
   But we couldn't do that, so we had to caption them "from scratch."   
      
   The original output files, it turned out, were on 8-inch floppies that   
   could no longer be read.   
      
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