Anyone remember floppy discs?

The big ones hold like 1.4mb of memory. The average video game these days is like 46.5GB. How many floppy disks would you need to install that?

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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.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Sidewinder The Sinclair used tiny little tape-cassettes too: possibly the same type?

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).

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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