Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning
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Found both 5 1/4" disks and an 8" disk!
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@scottalanmiller said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
Found both 5 1/4" disks and an 8" disk!
8", man, those were apparently before my time. I got started when 5 1/4" floppies were the standard.
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8" were around for a while. You can see here that this one was used in 1992. 5 1/4" and cassettes were common for home use when I was young, well, tapes at least, 5 1/4" inch floppies came about a few years into me using computers. But it wasn't too long.
8" was never common for home, only for the office. It was mostly mini-computers and high end workstations that used them.
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The floppy drives started with 8" models from IBM in 1971. The 5 1/4" wasn't invented until the later half of the 1970s. The 3.5" was invented in 1982 and first adopted by Apple in 1984 and the first high density, I believe, was the Commodore Amiga in 1985.
CP/M, which preceded DOS, was designed around the 8" floppy medium.
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@scottalanmiller said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
The floppy drives started with 8" models from IBM in 1971. The 5 1/4" wasn't invented until the later half of the 1970s. The 3.5" was invented in 1982 and first adopted by Apple in 1984 and the first high density, I believe, was the Commodore Amiga in 1985.
CP/M, which preceded DOS, was designed around the 8" floppy medium.
I was born in 1978
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I remember using a computer with dual 5.25 floppies at home in the early 90s, That, I think, was my first interaction with a computer.
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@coliver said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
I remember using a computer with dual 5.25 floppies at home in the early 90s, That, I think, was my first interaction with a computer.
Dual 5.25" in the 1990s? Wow. Those were antiquated by the mid-1980s!
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@scottalanmiller said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
@coliver said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
I remember using a computer with dual 5.25 floppies at home in the early 90s, That, I think, was my first interaction with a computer.
Dual 5.25" in the 1990s? Wow. Those were antiquated by the mid-1980s!
It was a hand me down computer from my father's company so that sounds about right. It didn't do much and we quickly upgraded to a computer with a modem and real hard drive.
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@coliver said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
I remember using a computer with dual 5.25 floppies at home in the early 90s, That, I think, was my first interaction with a computer.
Duel floppies was the best thing going for a little bit. No need to insert OS disc, start, remove OS disc, insert disc with program, run program, exit program, insert OS dics. Then they got a hard drive!
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@coliver said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
@scottalanmiller said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
@coliver said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
I remember using a computer with dual 5.25 floppies at home in the early 90s, That, I think, was my first interaction with a computer.
Dual 5.25" in the 1990s? Wow. Those were antiquated by the mid-1980s!
It was a hand me down computer from my father's company so that sounds about right. It didn't do much and we quickly upgraded to a computer with a modem and real hard drive.
I used dual floppies starting in 1987, but it was dual 3.5".
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Who even has a working 5.25" drive any more! I can say that I've never seen a drive for 8".
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my Dad has a working 8" drive! He also has a working dual drive (5.25 and 3.5 in 1 drive). We just tested it about a month ago we were able to read a disk from 1994 that I think had my brother's term papers on it!
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@jt1001001 said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:
my Dad has a working 8" drive! He also has a working dual drive (5.25 and 3.5 in 1 drive). We just tested it about a month ago we were able to read a disk from 1994 that I think had my brother's term papers on it!
I should have saved these disks for you then
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I have all four 1.2MB 5.25" disks for a Windows 3.1 installation if you want them.
