IS anyone still using floppy disks. I just got mine out of storage and I am browsing through the old stuff I saved. I found my old school webpages and some source codes I was looking for.
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chonsigirl
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I still have mine, but don't really use them anymore.
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RedGlitter
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I still have some but my modem doesn't have a drive for them. Talk about obsolete, I guess. I also have a zip drive someplace but not hooked up.
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Kathy Ellen
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I must live somewhere in the dark ages. I never heard about a flash drive until the other day. So I bought one and its delightful.....gonna throw those floppy disks out soon.
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No, and computers these days don’t even have A drives.
It is hard to know what to do with all of the old ones. I guess these are things that I should just smash up and throw out, but I always wonder what is on them, then can’t be bothered taking the time to find out.
It is hard to know what to do with all of the old ones. I guess these are things that I should just smash up and throw out, but I always wonder what is on them, then can’t be bothered taking the time to find out.
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Blimey, I remember using the old 8 and a quarter inch disks at work.... who remembers those???? 
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woppy71;715714 wrote: Blimey, I remember using the old 8 and a quarter inch disks at work.... who remembers those????
Remember them? I've still got them - and the drives to read them.
I did, at least, upgrade to double sided.
ETA Damn - I'm thinking the 5 1/4" jobbies. The original 8" drives flitted through my conciousness so quickly I'd forgotten about them.
Remember them? I've still got them - and the drives to read them.
I did, at least, upgrade to double sided.
ETA Damn - I'm thinking the 5 1/4" jobbies. The original 8" drives flitted through my conciousness so quickly I'd forgotten about them.
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I use my old floppies to play Frisbee with my neighbors German Shepard.
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Bryn Mawr;715933 wrote: ETA Damn - I'm thinking the 5 1/4" jobbies. The original 8" drives flitted through my conciousness so quickly I'd forgotten about them.
I used to use 8" floppies on the Burroughs Small Systems B80 at Rodwell House on Middlesex Street but mostly it was 10MB cartridges. I've got the backups somewhere if I look but I really can't remember what the application was. Copyright management at a guess, I was doing a lot of that at the time. I remember thinking I preferred CRAM even then and that was ten years after CRAM had become obsolete.
There was another timeshare shop above the Tottenham Court Road cinema which had PDP 11s and I'm trying to remember what the medium was on that. I suspect it must have been 9 track 6250 cpi 2400 foot open reel still, you could get 140MB onto one of those and for any project that was to all intents and purposes infinite. I've still got a few Mylar reels but I'd be hard pressed to find a shop that would convert the contents now. One of them came off a CDC Cyber 205 bureau outside Victoria Station, that tape was directly responsible for the destruction of an entire newspaper. Today, I think it was called. The tape's labelled "Universe".
The first timeshare shop I used was - this is so obscure... there was an Olivetti desk computer called the Audit 7, quite like the P6040, which had a perverse language called PL/I. It was so insignificant that it couldn't even compile its own programs. I used to take my card deck into a bureau and rent an hour at a time on an IBM 360 to produce the microcode for it. That was a stock control system for a warehouse in Walworth Road off the Elephant and Castle. Nobody thought it was remotely useful until the week it rained solidly. A bug - a genuine hardware overflow program error - had ordered an unprecedented two tons of Cat Litter which sold in days, and the warehouse staff were in awe of the predictive powers of the Olivetti ever after. I've spent an entire career wondering why anyone ever thought I was employable and at my worst moments I think back to the Cat Litter and remember. I'm the Juju man.
I used to use 8" floppies on the Burroughs Small Systems B80 at Rodwell House on Middlesex Street but mostly it was 10MB cartridges. I've got the backups somewhere if I look but I really can't remember what the application was. Copyright management at a guess, I was doing a lot of that at the time. I remember thinking I preferred CRAM even then and that was ten years after CRAM had become obsolete.
There was another timeshare shop above the Tottenham Court Road cinema which had PDP 11s and I'm trying to remember what the medium was on that. I suspect it must have been 9 track 6250 cpi 2400 foot open reel still, you could get 140MB onto one of those and for any project that was to all intents and purposes infinite. I've still got a few Mylar reels but I'd be hard pressed to find a shop that would convert the contents now. One of them came off a CDC Cyber 205 bureau outside Victoria Station, that tape was directly responsible for the destruction of an entire newspaper. Today, I think it was called. The tape's labelled "Universe".
The first timeshare shop I used was - this is so obscure... there was an Olivetti desk computer called the Audit 7, quite like the P6040, which had a perverse language called PL/I. It was so insignificant that it couldn't even compile its own programs. I used to take my card deck into a bureau and rent an hour at a time on an IBM 360 to produce the microcode for it. That was a stock control system for a warehouse in Walworth Road off the Elephant and Castle. Nobody thought it was remotely useful until the week it rained solidly. A bug - a genuine hardware overflow program error - had ordered an unprecedented two tons of Cat Litter which sold in days, and the warehouse staff were in awe of the predictive powers of the Olivetti ever after. I've spent an entire career wondering why anyone ever thought I was employable and at my worst moments I think back to the Cat Litter and remember. I'm the Juju man.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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spot;716005 wrote: I used to use 8" floppies on the Burroughs Small Systems B80 at Rodwell House on Middlesex Street but mostly it was 10MB cartridges. I've got the backups somewhere if I look but I really can't remember what the application was. Copyright management at a guess, I was doing a lot of that at the time. I remember thinking I preferred CRAM even then and that was ten years after CRAM had become obsolete.
There was another timeshare shop above the Tottenham Court Road cinema which had PDP 11s and I'm trying to remember what the medium was on that. I suspect it must have been 9 track 6250 cpi 2400 foot open reel still, you could get 140MB onto one of those and for any project that was to all intents and purposes infinite. I've still got a few Mylar reels but I'd be hard pressed to find a shop that would convert the contents now. One of them came off a CDC Cyber 205 bureau outside Victoria Station, that tape was directly responsible for the destruction of an entire newspaper. Today, I think it was called. The tape's labelled "Universe".
The first timeshare shop I used was - this is so obscure... there was an Olivetti desk computer called the Audit 7, quite like the P6040, which had a perverse language called PL/I. It was so insignificant that it couldn't even compile its own programs. I used to take my card deck into a bureau and rent an hour at a time on an IBM 360 to produce the microcode for it. That was a stock control system for a warehouse in Walworth Road off the Elephant and Castle. Nobody thought it was remotely useful until the week it rained solidly. A bug - a genuine hardware overflow program error - had ordered an unprecedented two tons of Cat Litter which sold in days, and the warehouse staff were in awe of the predictive powers of the Olivetti ever after. I've spent an entire career wondering why anyone ever thought I was employable and at my worst moments I think back to the Cat Litter and remember. I'm the Juju man.
Rodwell House is an absolute dive nowadays - I walk past it going from office to office and that's bad enough, you certainly wouldn't want to work there any more.
The first system I programmed was five hole paper tape and valves but that was just for fun. The first commercial system was five tape decks, 32K of ferrite core memory and an octal keypad for enterring commands - nothing so grand as a console typewriter - but at least it had a printer for the invoices.
Talking about systems that couldn't compile their own code, I did a job oce for one of the big multinationals on a Honeywell DPS6 - a process controller for a rail gantry. 128K of memory and four 5m disks that were mirror pairs, one for code and one for data. All assembler with no documentation and, when I arrived to try the first set of code changes, not enough memory to run the assembler.
I was a case of transfer the code to 67mb discs so that I could borrow the night shifts from my old boss 120 miles away - he wasn't using them. Then drive down to Honeywell for when they openned to convert back to 5mb platters, drive home for a couple of hours sleep and then back to the refinary for the evening shift to test the changes.
After four weeks of that I was shattered but the job came in a week ahead of the original schedule
There was another timeshare shop above the Tottenham Court Road cinema which had PDP 11s and I'm trying to remember what the medium was on that. I suspect it must have been 9 track 6250 cpi 2400 foot open reel still, you could get 140MB onto one of those and for any project that was to all intents and purposes infinite. I've still got a few Mylar reels but I'd be hard pressed to find a shop that would convert the contents now. One of them came off a CDC Cyber 205 bureau outside Victoria Station, that tape was directly responsible for the destruction of an entire newspaper. Today, I think it was called. The tape's labelled "Universe".
The first timeshare shop I used was - this is so obscure... there was an Olivetti desk computer called the Audit 7, quite like the P6040, which had a perverse language called PL/I. It was so insignificant that it couldn't even compile its own programs. I used to take my card deck into a bureau and rent an hour at a time on an IBM 360 to produce the microcode for it. That was a stock control system for a warehouse in Walworth Road off the Elephant and Castle. Nobody thought it was remotely useful until the week it rained solidly. A bug - a genuine hardware overflow program error - had ordered an unprecedented two tons of Cat Litter which sold in days, and the warehouse staff were in awe of the predictive powers of the Olivetti ever after. I've spent an entire career wondering why anyone ever thought I was employable and at my worst moments I think back to the Cat Litter and remember. I'm the Juju man.
Rodwell House is an absolute dive nowadays - I walk past it going from office to office and that's bad enough, you certainly wouldn't want to work there any more.
The first system I programmed was five hole paper tape and valves but that was just for fun. The first commercial system was five tape decks, 32K of ferrite core memory and an octal keypad for enterring commands - nothing so grand as a console typewriter - but at least it had a printer for the invoices.
Talking about systems that couldn't compile their own code, I did a job oce for one of the big multinationals on a Honeywell DPS6 - a process controller for a rail gantry. 128K of memory and four 5m disks that were mirror pairs, one for code and one for data. All assembler with no documentation and, when I arrived to try the first set of code changes, not enough memory to run the assembler.
I was a case of transfer the code to 67mb discs so that I could borrow the night shifts from my old boss 120 miles away - he wasn't using them. Then drive down to Honeywell for when they openned to convert back to 5mb platters, drive home for a couple of hours sleep and then back to the refinary for the evening shift to test the changes.
After four weeks of that I was shattered but the job came in a week ahead of the original schedule
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freetobeme
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I don't have any of the 5 1/4 floppies around, but do have lots of the smaller, not so floppy type - My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica which took the 3.5 " disks, I still have some pics kicking around on them. I gave that camera to my son so I really don't have a use for them anymore.
I spent some time formatting them all for re-use, but those flash drives are amazing.
Somebody mentioned not being able to put a disk into a modem - I've never heard of putting a disk into a modem ?
Speaking of which, my first modem was a 300 baud - talk about slow, of course BB boards were just text....
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- My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica which took the 3.5 " disks, I still have some pics kicking around on them. I gave that camera to my son so I really don't have a use for them anymore.I spent some time formatting them all for re-use, but those flash drives are amazing.
Somebody mentioned not being able to put a disk into a modem - I've never heard of putting a disk into a modem ?
Speaking of which, my first modem was a 300 baud - talk about slow, of course BB boards were just text....
cheers
Come in and talk
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Floppy Disks
woppy71;715714 wrote: Blimey, I remember using the old 8 and a quarter inch disks at work.... who remembers those???? Which of these are you thinking of?
Which of these are you thinking of?Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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wow, those pics bring back memories.... that old drive on the left reminds me of an old sirrius system I used to write my documents on. When you formatted the disks, you could hear the motor winding itself up as the heads got closer to the outside edge and they used to vibrate so much that it would send any pencils, paperclips scurrying across the desk :wah:
Behaviour breeds behaviour - treat people how you would like to be treated yourself
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woppy71;715714 wrote: Blimey, I remember using the old 8 and a quarter inch disks at work.... who remembers those????
Oh boy the memory of playing the game Oregon Trail in elementary school just popped in my head at mention of those. :wah:
Oh boy the memory of playing the game Oregon Trail in elementary school just popped in my head at mention of those. :wah:
"Girls are crazy! I'm not ever getting married, I can make my own sandwiches!"
my son
my son
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freetobeme;716056 wrote: I don't have any of the 5 1/4 floppies around, but do have lots of the smaller, not so floppy type - My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica which took the 3.5 " disks, I still have some pics kicking around on them. I gave that camera to my son so I really don't have a use for them anymore.
I spent some time formatting them all for re-use, but those flash drives are amazing.
Somebody mentioned not being able to put a disk into a modem - I've never heard of putting a disk into a modem ?
Speaking of which, my first modem was a 300 baud - talk about slow, of course BB boards were just text....
cheers
Come in and talk
http://www.friendshipgarden.easyfreefor ... ?eff=16140
Ugh I still have a sony mavica and I hate using those stupid discs. :-5 Really need to sweet talk Santa into a newer nicer camera this Christmas. :wah:
- My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica which took the 3.5 " disks, I still have some pics kicking around on them. I gave that camera to my son so I really don't have a use for them anymore.I spent some time formatting them all for re-use, but those flash drives are amazing.
Somebody mentioned not being able to put a disk into a modem - I've never heard of putting a disk into a modem ?
Speaking of which, my first modem was a 300 baud - talk about slow, of course BB boards were just text....
cheers
Come in and talk
http://www.friendshipgarden.easyfreefor ... ?eff=16140
Ugh I still have a sony mavica and I hate using those stupid discs. :-5 Really need to sweet talk Santa into a newer nicer camera this Christmas. :wah:
"Girls are crazy! I'm not ever getting married, I can make my own sandwiches!"
my son
my son
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Sheryl;716132 wrote: Oh boy the memory of playing the game Oregon Trail in elementary school just popped in my head at mention of those. :wah:
My favourite from that era has to be Colossal Caves on the mainframe - it was only a text adventure but it had humour.
Kill dragon
How? With your bare hands!
Yes
The dragon is dead
and so it went on
My favourite from that era has to be Colossal Caves on the mainframe - it was only a text adventure but it had humour.
Kill dragon
How? With your bare hands!
Yes
The dragon is dead
and so it went on
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freetobeme
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Sheryl;716133 wrote: Ugh I still have a sony mavica and I hate using those stupid discs. :-5 Really need to sweet talk Santa into a newer nicer camera this Christmas. :wah:
Why wait for Christmas, do it now... you only go this way once..
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Why wait for Christmas, do it now... you only go this way once..
visit me here
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