I still have one. How on Earth I'd ever get the data off of it. It was an IBM Series 1 is all I remember.I always thought they were 7.5”. Must have been 8” i was using. The behemoths.
ZIp Disk FTW!Just had that conversation with my wife. She goes “the kids I work with today, don’t understand what AOL was like”. I had to remind her that I use to have to type into the DOS when I wanted to play a video game, and I remember usin the 7.5” floppies and changing them out anytime I wanted to switch games. And the monitor was a green screen. She called me an old man and acted like one of the kids she was complaining about. Fml. Lol.
OMG what would Napster be todayRemember when you "heard about people" downloading Music from Napster with a dial-up modem and leaving the queue set to run all night, hoping to get four or five good quality song files to complete in 10 hours.
ZIp Disk FTW!
I remember my first computer using tape cassettes (same kind as we listened to music on) for storage.
I remember my first computer using tape cassettes (same kind as we listened to music on) for storage. There was one game I liked to play (some kind of air traffic controller) that would take 5+ minutes to load, but once you "died", you had to load the entire game again. And of course we had the 5 1/4" discs (any one else cut off the tab so you could use BOTH sides?), then 3 1/2"
Yep, Commodore Pet! I wrote a whole program on that cassette. UFO landed and Alien stick figure walked out of a door after it opened. I think that was as much as I could fit on thereI remember my first computer using tape cassettes (same kind as we listened to music on) for storage. There was one game I liked to play (some kind of air traffic controller) that would take 5+ minutes to load, but once you "died", you had to load the entire game again. And of course we had the 5 1/4" discs (any one else cut off the tab so you could use BOTH sides?), then 3 1/2"
My first computer was a Tandy 1000SL. It had an 8088 processor. This was in 1989.I bought my first modem to use with a 386SX computer. It was at 9600. About the only thing, I could do with it at first connecting to the local library to look at their card catalog and VERY limited data. It was GREAT
I still have all that! Cases of them. And Syquest the larger discs and one other kind. Now I have boxes of IDE & SATAs and a docking station.ZIp Disk FTW!
Anybody remember the Burroughs 3MB 8" mini disk 3? Thought not. It was alwasy fun explaining to customers why they had to but the special (and they really were special) Burroughs floppys that cost much more that the ones at Office Depot. 3MB was quire an accomplishment way back when.There were:
8” floppies
5.25” mini floppies
3.5” micro floppies
We won’t discuss that Zenith also-ran. 3”?
I have zip disks from the 90s and a USB ZipDrive. I recently tried to retrieve some data from them. My Win10 machine wouldn’t even recognize the drive. I didn’t have time to research whether or not there were drivers available or if Win10 will support them at all.I have some zip discs but I no longer have the reader. Even if I did, I'm not sure it would plug into today's motherboards let alone finding a driver. Lord knows what's on them.
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My neighbor kept his old 8088 machine. One time as a project I borrowed it and installed an old scsi card and then attached my old scsi backup tape drive. It took the same tapes as those digital camcorders. It worked. It was a slow job but I managed through a series of transfers to get the backups onto my current 4TB back up disc. For posterity.I have zip disks from the 90s and a USB ZipDrive. I recently tried to retrieve some data from them. My Win10 machine wouldn’t even recognize the drive. I didn’t have time to research whether or not there were drivers available or if Win10 will support them at all.
My Win10 machine wouldn’t even recognize the drive.
I have some zip discs but I no longer have the reader. Even if I did, I'm not sure it would plug into today's motherboards let alone finding a driver. Lord knows what's on them.
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