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To: Tell It Right
> 21. Wrist Wrestling -- try your Hand at swapping the system disk for the program disk to the data disk in record times! Who's the floppy master?

Who could ever forget those early single-floppy-drive systems?!?

Not that dual-floppies was much better....

12 posted on 01/21/2022 8:20:25 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
Agreed. I grumbled heavily when I got the Borland C+ compiler, which was my first programming language that was too large to fit onto floppy disks, and I had to spend money to buy a hard drive. It was a whopping 50 MB! LOL

It still took a while to boot up, but from then on floppy disks were just backups or if I needed to boot in a different OS.

For a while I had 3 OS choices and two of them were on the hard drive. LOL

15 posted on 01/21/2022 8:28:35 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: dayglored
I still install from floppies /


19 posted on 01/21/2022 10:32:24 AM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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