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What was also funny was "floppy grammar" (at least in my time and locale) Whenever you gave someone x amount of floppies to copy something for you (prob a game

What was also funny was "floppy grammar" (at least in my time and locale) Whenever you gave someone x amount of floppies to copy something for you (prob a game)... the usual grammar/conversation was "you can just copy over it" yet no such thing exists, you can't in 999/1000 cases "copy-over something" you first have to delete/format it then copy. Always thought it was 'funny/weird' :)

int_19h 4y ago
That's just legacy of audiocassettes and VHS tapes, and later on, magnetic tape data storage used for popular home microcomputers. With those, you literally "copied over". With floppies, you actually could do that as well, if you were copying floppies verbatim with e.g. DISKCOPY.
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- jaclaz 4y ago
  Yes, in the good ol' times I would have used a nifty little DOS program called Venus, that would simply copy the "whole disk" (a lot like dd but with a semi-graphical interface). Of course the "real thing" was the Deluxe Option Board (some details about it and a bunch of the common copying utilities of the time here): http://retro.icequake.net/dob/ http://retro.icequake.net/dob/