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> Oh my! I feel sooo old now! I've handled 5.25" floppies on old computers (running DOS and old, old, ~~Mac~~ Apple operating systems), but 8" floppies specifi
by fennecfoxen 7y ago
> Oh my! I feel sooo old now!
I've handled 5.25" floppies on old computers (running DOS and old, old, ~~Mac~~ Apple operating systems), but 8" floppies specifically are an extra level of ancient and hard-to-find.
- bitwize 7y agoMacs have been using 3.5" floppies from the word go. Were you using after market drives? Early prototype Macs?
- fennecfoxen 7y agoYou're right, it was more Apple II (or similar) than Mac. The brands have blurred in my mind with time!
- antod 7y agoMy high school computer lab (barely/rarely) ran off 8" floppies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1 The dozen or so computers were "networked" to a shared storage unit (Proteus?) that consisted of two 8" floppy drives. Not that we got our own disks or anything - they were more of a permanently mounted NAS/SAN. We'd probably average a couple of hours class time per year on them, so not very effective. This was 5 years or so after I'd already used 5.25" floppies on a TRS-80, and about the same time 3.5" ones were used on early Macs and Amigas.
- vmlinuz 7y agoMy school computer room had a single old machine which took 8" floppies, entirely unused and gathering dust in a corner, when I started computer studies in the late 80s, and a room full of 5.25"-equipped BBC micros... By the time I left, the BBCs had largely been replaced by semi-IBM-compatible RM Nimbus PCs with 3.25" drives. At home, on the other hand, I spent a while with an Amstrad PCW - running CP/M from 3" floppies!