@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).
@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... 乂ᴼ◡ᴼ乂
(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 [b]8[/b]-inch floppy-discs, but by then 5.25" was becoming the norm.
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!!
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