To: The Great RJ
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?.........
40 posted on
12/23/2008 7:40:05 AM PST by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Red Badger
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?.........Yup. Reloaded a DEC 8810 from floppy once. Took forever.
I now carry more memory in my pocket every day than we had in our entire datacenter back in the day.
44 posted on
12/23/2008 8:08:23 AM PST by
zeugma
(Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
To: Red Badger
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?. Routinely.
But I suspect we're not talking about the same thing.
To: Red Badger
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?......... Hard-sectored or soft-sectored? :=)
And yes, I've used both.
53 posted on
12/23/2008 8:31:42 AM PST by
Bob
To: Red Badger
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?......... Heck yeah, back when we had IBM S/36, S/38, and the 1st generation of AS/400 (Silverlake). I also remember those really high speed, snappy 1/2" 9348 round-reel tape drives that ran at 2400bpi. Who would ever need more than 512mb of memory?
62 posted on
12/23/2008 8:55:03 AM PST by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: Red Badger
Ever used an 8 inch floppy?......... Ah, the pre viagra days. But, seriously, the portability of the 8" floppy was way awesome when it first came out.
64 posted on
12/23/2008 8:57:03 AM PST by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Red Badger
I remember single sided 8 in. floppy’s. The double sided ones were a major invention.
81 posted on
12/24/2008 3:36:15 AM PST by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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