Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Mister Rog]

Problem sorted. The USA Department of Defense has the answer . . . . 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36385839

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

[Kevin Wood]

Problem sorted. The USA Department of Defense has the answer . . . . 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36385839

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

Don't knock it. It predates Windows, so probably just works.

[aaronjb]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

.. granted they were confined to the one machine at school nobody used, so I've never actually used one.  Plenty of 5.25" ones, though, for the BBC Model B & Masters.

Ah, those were the days.

[Kevin Wood]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

.. granted they were confined to the one machine at school nobody used, so I've never actually used one.  Plenty of 5.25" ones, though, for the BBC Model B & Masters.

Ah, those were the days.

Indeed. I wrote a virus for the BBC micro that would randomly turn the screen upside down. Then, when they started to catch on, I took apart a few monitors and swapped the polarity of the field scan coils. Oh, what fun!

[TheBoy]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

.. granted they were confined to the one machine at school nobody used, so I've never actually used one.  Plenty of 5.25" ones, though, for the BBC Model B & Masters.

Ah, those were the days.

Next time I'm in the MK office, I'll check, I think I have some 8" floppys in there (but no drive, sadly)...

[TheBoy]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I think even the Sinclair Microdrive had more capacity

[Kevin Wood]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I think even the Sinclair Microdrive had more capacity

.. and it was so reliable that you never ended up swearing at it.*



* - lie

[Mister Rog]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

Actually we've met. And yes, you are younger than me (BTW:We did get on ok  )

[Migalot]

For what it's worth, I invested in one these a few months ago and I can't fault it. 

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/data-storage/data-storage/wd-my-cloud-personal-cloud-storage-4-tb-21817659-pdt.html

[aaronjb]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

Actually we've met. And yes, you are younger than me (BTW:We did get on ok  )

See, I must be getting on a bit as my memory is clearly failing 

[zirk]

Even I don't remember 8" floppies 

I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..

.. granted they were confined to the one machine at school nobody used, so I've never actually used one.  Plenty of 5.25" ones, though, for the BBC Model B & Masters.

Ah, those were the days.

Next time I'm in the MK office, I'll check, I think I have some 8" floppys in there (but no drive, sadly)...

Ive got some box sets here, mostly virgins and some System Baks. 

Back in the early 80's I was the Computer Support Engineer for a TV Advertising Company called Teledata (Tel: 0 200 0 200), basically a glorified Call Center, for TV Media Response, the thing was a twin mirrored simple Main Frame with around 64 dump Terminals running via 4800 serial, the whole operating system was backed / reload on 10 x 8" floppys. If my memory serves each floppy was around  240K, so the entire OS loaded was a mere 2.4Mb in total, 

Dont ask me what the System Ram was because I'll probably piss myself. 

[TheBoy]

Dont ask me what the System Ram was because I'll probably piss myself. 

What was the system ram?