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I Remember Floppy Disks

When Floppy Was Really Floppy... My first computer that I purchased had a 5 1/4" High Density Drive. I've used at home or on the job 8". 5 1/4", and 3.5" Floppies. I used the 720 Kb, 1.44 Mb, and the 2.88 Mb 3.5" floppies.
They used to have sticker tabs for the 5 1/4" to cover the hole on them. It write-protected the disk if I remember right. I just remember software installations with numerous disks before the CD & DVD came along.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

A friend gave me an old Sinclair "micro-computer" (ZX-[i]number[/i] ?), together with a stack of magazines from its owners' club, full of programme listings written by owners, in BASIC and in assembler-language.

These did not use discs of any sort or size though, but miniature tape-cassettes!

MarkRomeo

Yes paper tab to the notch write protected 5.25", the 3.5s had a switch to do the same.

PrairieDog71 · 51-55, M

It is amazing to think that 1.44 Mb used to be a lot of space & now is totally insignificant.

MarkRomeo

It wasn't that much space! I remember having to cut large files down to 1.44Mb on 10+ disks to get the file on another machine, then paste all the parts back together on the destination. I still have that program in my bin directory.

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