For the Techies: Flight of the Floppy Drives
"That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E
I wonder how many people don't know or have never seen a true "floppy" disk?!?!?!?
No doubt. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 with its cassette tape drive, and my first PC was a Kaypro IV with standard 5.25" floppies.Originally Posted by imanaknut
I remember when everyone used to call those 3.5" floppies "hard disks" because of their hard shell, even though the disks were floppy inside.
Kids these days don't know what us "old geezers" are talking about. LOL. And I'm only 34!
"That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E
First office PC... a trash 80 with 6 SS/SD 5.25" floppies
It has been a long time since I have seen an old floopy dist or drive, much less some one using one.
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3.5" is a "microfloppy"
5.25" is a "minifloppy"
I've used minicomputers with 8" full-sized floppy disk drives.
8-incher
Here's an image of a 15-inch - though I've never used a system which took these.
Hey, size doesn't matter!I've used minicomputers with 8" full-sized floppy disk drives.
8-incher
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The similarities between LAGC and a 1990's home computer?
They both have a 3.5" floppy.
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my first machine was a Commie 64 with an acoustic link 300 baud modem and a monochrome monitor. i should have kept the modem. it's probably worth a few bucks now.
then i stepped into the big time with a Pine Com PC XT 8088 clone with two 5.25's, a 10 meg hard drive, a 1200 baud internal modem, 64k of RAM and RGB display. i hot rodded it to 10.1Mhz and really thought i had something going on.
ANSI and ASCII graphics, BBS's (one at a time), DOS........how in the world did we get out of the caves?
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I still use the 3.5's, have a 5.25 and I have the mammoth 1541? I think it is for the Commodore series.
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When I was working for ADM back in '99-'01, they had an old system with an orange-on-black monochrome monitor with 8" floppies on the network. I still have both a 3.5" FD and a 250 mb ZIP drive on my 5 year old XP machine. I like the true "drag & drop" that only comes with magnetic media.3.5" is a "microfloppy"
5.25" is a "minifloppy"
I've used minicomputers with 8" full-sized floppy disk drives.
8-incher
Here's an image of a 15-inch - though I've never used a system which took these.
Yes, I do have a single-layer DVD burner but with external hard drives as big ans relatively inexpensive as they are, I don't waste the discs on "backups".
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