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Used 'em all. (UNIX, SunOS, 8" floppies, 5.25" floppies, etc,etc) Though I started with a 5.25" single-sided single density floppy in 1978: 88 Kilobytes. I ac
by simonblack 2y ago
Used 'em all. (UNIX, SunOS, 8" floppies, 5.25" floppies, etc,etc)
Though I started with a 5.25" single-sided single density floppy in 1978: 88 Kilobytes.
I actually upgraded to the 8" floppies about 4 years later, but by then it was double-sided, double density. I thought all my Christmasses had come at once to jump from 88 K to 1200 K in the blink of a eye. I transferred a whole 5" floppy to an 8" floppy and I still had more than a Megabyte of space left! Wheeeee!
Round about then the first IBM came out, and I remember we looked down our noses at that miserable little amount of floppy space it had (160K) and we considered it a toy!
We didn't think that way only 3 or 4 years later when that "toy" completely wiped out our 8-bit world.
- asplake 2y ago8” after 5.25” would have been a downgrade I think? I was glad to see the back of former (the latter too of course, but a bit later)
- simonblack 2y agoNope. Upgrade. I explained how the 8" held far more data than the 5". The HD 5" 1.2 MB didn't appear till the late 80s, early 90s. The 8" 1.2 MB was around about ten years earlier. 8" floppy (IBM-3470 SSSD format was the standard format for CP/M software to be distributed on.)
- lanna 2y agoYou got 5" and 8" mixed up
- simonblack 2y agoNope. CP/M software distribution standard floppy size was 8". (SSSD = IBM 3470 standard) I had gone from North Star DOS (5") floppy to CP/M (8").