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3.5" disks, nice. We were still on 5 1/4" in high school in 87-88.. True floppys! I remember thinking 3.5" hard disk - wow the technology :)
by dpweb 2y ago
3.5" disks, nice. We were still on 5 1/4" in high school in 87-88.. True floppys! I remember thinking 3.5" hard disk - wow the technology :)
- pjmlp 2y agoI was envious of a friend of mine with a ZX Spectrum +3A, with the builtin drive. The rest of us had tapes. And yes the high school computers were running MS-DOS 3.3, with two 5 1/4" drives and no hard disk.
- lproven 2y ago+3, not +3A. I suspect you're thinking of the Amstrad Spectrum +2 (grey, largely the same as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128) vs Amstrad Spectrum +2A (black, contained a +3 motherboard minus the FDD controller, and less compatible with external peripherals).
- hedora 2y agoWe were still using 5 1/4”, but the school CS teacher had a special press that cut a notch into the 360K (?) ones to trick the Apple II’s into using them in 720K mode. She also had a utility to copy original software disks onto the “high density” disks, then read back the data. From what I could tell, it worked like a charm. 10% of the copies failed, but whatever. (Coursework was stored on unmodified disks, of course.)
- unregistereddev 2y agoThe special press was fancy! I used a hole punch (the type intended for punching small round holes in paper), and as long as you lined it up correctly it worked great.
- hedora 2y agoCome to think of it, it was a hole punch.