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You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...
by drblast 7y ago
You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...
- LocalH 7y agoI was apparently fancy, I was given a notcher when I got my C128 as a kid :P
- emanuensis 7y agoEh, i skipped the whole 5" era - i guess i saw them as too fragile. i developed and wrote my dissertation on 8"ers (mostly the "newer" ones with a capacity of 1MB). But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I/O and used its tape punch (by holding the tape still) to edit snippets. Of course earlier i used to play sonnets on an IBM 1620 (which was free for use after midnight) with sorted decks of Holleriths. To edit them i would use the adjacent keypunch (also holding to edit).
- CydeWeys 7y agoHah. I remember using 5.25" floppies (just barely), but I was quite young at the time. This was really something you could do? The back surface of the floppy was inaccessible, but was still usable despite not intentionally being so? That reminds me of this, except real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc