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Installing to the C drive! Luxury! We swapped those floppies back and forth out of the A and B drives because we had no hard drive and it kept prompting for the

by Isamu 3y ago

Installing to the C drive! Luxury! We swapped those floppies back and forth out of the A and B drives because we had no hard drive and it kept prompting for the part of the compiler swapped out! And we enjoyed it! Kids these days don’t believe you when you rant about it!

devoutsalsa 3y ago
In 1992, I had a 5.25 inch, double height hard drive with 8.9 MB of storage. I also had two 5.25 inch, 360 KB floppy drives. I was jealous of my friend's Mac w/ a 720 KB disk drive and 30 MB hard drive (although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost).
- michaelcampbell 3y ago
  > although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost How times have (not) changed, eh?
- toast0 3y ago
  Likely just full height, not double height. What has become the normal height for a 5.25" drive is half height. I've seen plenty of full height 5.25" hard drives, but I don't think I've seen double height (would take 4 bays in a modern computer case, if modern computer cases had 4 bays)
  - devoutsalsa 3y ago
    It's been a while. It was twice the size of two 5.25 floppy drives. Whatever size that is.
  - o11c 3y ago
    I was going to say "my current desktop has 4 CD-capable bays", but I checked and it's actually only 3 bays followed by unused space (and then 2.5" and 3.5" bays below that).
- xorcist 3y ago
  The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems. Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!
- datavirtue 3y ago
  Mmmm...back when your computer had a smell. You mentioned that hard drive and the memories of computer aroma flashes in my snoot. I had a friend that would seal up his Nintendo to trap the aroma.
mixmastamyk 3y ago
‘92, not ’82.
bux93 3y ago
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- phendrenad2 3y ago
  Oh you had it easy! We had to listen to morse code on the radio and write down the 1s and 0s and transcribe them to hexadecimal!
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    I did that while I was walking uphill to school and uphill home again.

by Isamu 3y ago

devoutsalsa 3y ago

In 1992, I had a 5.25 inch, double height hard drive with 8.9 MB of storage. I also had two 5.25 inch, 360 KB floppy drives. I was jealous of my friend's Mac w/ a 720 KB disk drive and 30 MB hard drive (although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost).

michaelcampbell 3y ago
> although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost How times have (not) changed, eh?
toast0 3y ago
Likely just full height, not double height. What has become the normal height for a 5.25" drive is half height. I've seen plenty of full height 5.25" hard drives, but I don't think I've seen double height (would take 4 bays in a modern computer case, if modern computer cases had 4 bays)
- devoutsalsa 3y ago
  It's been a while. It was twice the size of two 5.25 floppy drives. Whatever size that is.
- o11c 3y ago
  I was going to say "my current desktop has 4 CD-capable bays", but I checked and it's actually only 3 bays followed by unused space (and then 2.5" and 3.5" bays below that).
xorcist 3y ago
The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems. Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!
datavirtue 3y ago
Mmmm...back when your computer had a smell. You mentioned that hard drive and the memories of computer aroma flashes in my snoot. I had a friend that would seal up his Nintendo to trap the aroma.

mixmastamyk 3y ago

‘92, not ’82.

bux93 3y ago

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phendrenad2 3y ago
Oh you had it easy! We had to listen to morse code on the radio and write down the 1s and 0s and transcribe them to hexadecimal!
- qingcharles 3y ago
  I did that while I was walking uphill to school and uphill home again.