Sidewinder · 36-40, M
I remember 5" floppies and 3.5" floppies as well as CD ROM. Also, being a Commodore user, I remember computer programs on cassette.
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Sidewinder · 36-40, M
@ArishMell The Sinclair actually did use cassettes. 

ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Sidewinder Ah, most of them or later ones, yes, but there was a type, the Sinclair ZX I think from memory, that used very much smaller cassettes. I don't know if they were unique to that computer or were used on others, perhaps by other manufacturers.
I had one, given to me by a friend, complete with a box of Sinclair enthusiasts' magazines full of readers' contributed programme lists in Sinclair's edition of BASIC (which I had some knowledge of), and Assembler code (which I knew nothing about).
I had one, given to me by a friend, complete with a box of Sinclair enthusiasts' magazines full of readers' contributed programme lists in Sinclair's edition of BASIC (which I had some knowledge of), and Assembler code (which I knew nothing about).
AdaXI · T
@Sidewinder I had a commodore 64 that use the standard tape cassettes to load up games, programs and store data on, look something like this one...
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Northwest · M
I remember using 5-1/4" floppies, with a 360KB capacity. My first computer had one 5-1/4" floppy drive and one built-in 10MB hard disk, and 720KB RAM
ArishMell · 70-79, M
IG = 1 X 10^3 M, and 46.5Gb = 4.65 X 10 Gb.
So
(4.65 X 10^10) / (1.4 X 10^6) = 3.321 X 10^[10-6] = 3.321 X 10^4 = 33.21 X 10^3.
You can't have a fractional disc, so you'd need 34 000 floppy-discs.
I think that's correct though I suspect I've been too liberal with the indices' amplitudes - please, mathematicians among you, do verify or correct as necessary.
And lots of loading time.
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I recall seeing one computer at work that used 8-inch floppy-discs, but by then 5.25" was becoming the norm.
So
(4.65 X 10^10) / (1.4 X 10^6) = 3.321 X 10^[10-6] = 3.321 X 10^4 = 33.21 X 10^3.
You can't have a fractional disc, so you'd need 34 000 floppy-discs.
I think that's correct though I suspect I've been too liberal with the indices' amplitudes - please, mathematicians among you, do verify or correct as necessary.
And lots of loading time.
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I recall seeing one computer at work that used 8-inch floppy-discs, but by then 5.25" was becoming the norm.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@ArishMell nice!
ElwoodBlues · M
I had a machine that took 5.25" floppies; 360K each. And you could load the original Lotus 1-2-3 from floppies. I augmented that machine with a ten megabyte "hard card" that sped everything up immensely!!
softie · 31-35, M
I do, but they were already on the way out by the late 90s/early 00s I think. Dial-up internet was popular then.
ElRengo · 70-79, M
I remember when not even "mainframes" had disks but tapes.
TrunkZ · 56-60, M
Floppy discs and AOL 😂😂


NerdyPotato · M
@TrunkZ ah, the second generation that wasn't floppy anymore and had a staggering 4 times the capacity.😌
TrunkZ · 56-60, M
@NerdyPotato hahaha it was quite the advancement at the time 😬😬
Tape is old but is very high capacity nowadays. Floppy's, zip disks, jaz discs where super small in comparison to nearly everything.
akindheart · 61-69, F
oh yeah. i had my resumes on them. then i transferred to the hard disk and then to the round disk.
NerdyPotato · M
Enough to make switching them for every next step a lifetime job. 😅
AdaXI · T
Yeah I had an Atari ST that used floppy discs.
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I remember them
rrraksamam · 31-35, M
I still use floppy disks

SW-User
Yes I'm that old
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
We had snow.many.
cotheo · 56-60, M
i remember too..
revenant · F
Yes boxes full of floppy disks lol
calicuz · 56-60, M

SW-User
Yep, them were the days. Floppy disks and MS-DOS.
Yep. 😂
tenente · 36-40, M
PCs used to have cup holders too
NerdyPotato · M