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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-number ?), 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!