[No Truce With Kings]

“I got you beat. When I started out, we were using IBM 2311 disk drives, a washing-machine-sized unit with 7 1/2 meg capacity.”

Anyone remember 8-inch floppies with 128Kb of memory?

Anyone remember when 128Kb seemed like a lot?

[PapaBear3625]

Anyone remember 8-inch floppies with 128Kb of memory?

Yep.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Anyone remember 8-inch floppies with 128Kb of memory?

Not as far back as the 8" but I still remember when 740k per side was the Bee's Knees.

I still have T-shirts (My HHGTTG "I Got The Babel Fish" shirt for one) with drool stains on them...deposited whilst I was dreaming of owning my first hard drive.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I like this game.....

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IBM 650 Magnetic Drum

Now this was THE Storage Device for Data ****AND **** the instructions ****to be executed.....

I wrote a calculartion program for it ....

SOAP language (Assembler ) and...Fortran.

[DTA]

>>>>Anyone remember when 128Kb seemed like a lot?<<<

Sure, who will ever need more than 640Kb