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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...
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Hahah, yeah, you should find and show them an old 5.25" floppy back when they actually were.
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I've heard/read somewhere that in Australia or the UK they call 3.5" disks "stiffies".
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I may have some 8"ers around the office.
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So is a 12" floppy better than a 8" stiffie?
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What's a floppy disk?
It's a disk that hasn't seen Taylor Swift yet...
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Hate to admit it, but my first job in college was inventory control using punch cards and an IBM sorter.
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My first college class was Fortan with punch cards.
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09-17-2009, 11:20 AM
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was telling my Niece about my 8-track unit..
in my so loved 69 Chevelle... her ?, did that make it go faster... Rika |
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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. |
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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? |
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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
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09-17-2009, 02:14 PM
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magnetic drum storage -- I heard it was the coming thing...
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OMG - I hated it when you had a stack of punch cards and one of them got out of order!
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1969 and 1986 Porsche Targa and Coupe 1720cc and 3
1985 Porsche Targa 3.2
