What's a floppy disk?
 

We were cleaning out the office and had a stack of 3.5" disks. My 9 year old asks "What's this for?" and my 14 year old tells him "It's kind of like a USB flash drive".

Man, I'm old...

Hahah, yeah, you should find and show them an old 5.25" floppy back when they actually were.

I've heard/read somewhere that in Australia or the UK they call 3.5" disks "stiffies".

I may have some 8"ers around the office.

we canned all our 8" ers when the last Trash 80 Model 12 bit the dust... ;)

So is a 12" floppy better than a 8" stiffie?

What's a floppy disk?

It's a disk that hasn't seen Taylor Swift yet...

Hate to admit it, but my first job in college was inventory control using punch cards and an IBM sorter.

Were those for the old IBM Display Writer??

System's 36 and 38.

My first college class was Fortan with punch cards.

was telling my Niece about my 8-track unit..
in my so loved 69 Chevelle...
her ?, did that make it go faster...

Rika

It did once you got the match book slid in just right.

Here in SoCal, the Craig 4-track had much better sound quality. The lope of the cam in the 396 at idle would make the 8-tracks skip or lose track adjustment if the fenderwells were unplugged.

When my last 4-track machine bit the dust, cassettes were already out.

WOW! Another oldster! Well then you remember how excited we all were to finally get Fortran II? No sooner did we get good at that than COBOL came out.

Ah, the good old days. Never a problem with sourcing confetti in those days, huh.....

I ran across a box of old computer stuff the other day. An IBM Computer. Then another one, it's replacement, an IBM AT. Think both were 286 chips. One each. Hard drive maybe 256K?

My first 'laptop' was in there too. 64K hard drive.

Wonder if there's a market for these relics?

Wonder how Mr. Hollerith is doing these days?

Funny this comes up today.

I was looking at the big stack of dusty, unused 3.5"s on my desk. Right next to them is a postage stamp sized 8GB SD card...

Then there's those new tiny ones.
What are they called?


KT

Micro SD?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1253225646.jpg

magnetic drum storage -- I heard it was the coming thing...

OMG - I hated it when you had a stack of punch cards and one of them got out of order!