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Every payday (I was a young appie/tradesman soldier) I would splash out and buy about fifty blank 5.25" floppies, to copy all the new and exciting programs I could from a generous family member in the computer business.
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Every payday (I was a young appie/tradesman soldier) I would splash out and buy about fifty blank 5.25" floppies, to copy all the new and exciting programs I could from a generous family member in the computer business.
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I may have done something similar once or twice :^). Today I obviously think people who do that sort of thing are criminals :-O. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
Alan sugar was the daddy of piracy. He brought out a double tape deck system that enabled me to copy hundreds of ZX Spectrum games. I think I only ever bought half a dozen.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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Alan sugar was the daddy of piracy. He brought out a double tape deck system that enabled me to copy hundreds of ZX Spectrum games. I think I only ever bought half a dozen.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
That's the first genuinely useful or innovative thing I've heard of him doing. My estimation of Lord Sugar has just gone up considerably.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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That's the first genuinely useful or innovative thing I've heard of him doing. My estimation of Lord Sugar has just gone up considerably.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I think you must just have been on the cusp. I am 46 and I only just used them as the 5 1/4 were being phased in. I was a SysOp back then on an IBM 360 (back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth). We got rid of the 360 and replaced it with an AS400.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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SoMad wrote:
I never actually used the 8" ones
This is probably because you are far too young :( I bet POH, Nagy et al all remember them!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Oh dear, I do. :sigh:
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Perhaps I was not as quick out of the gate as you. I am 44 and my first PC was an Atari PC3 with an 8088 CPU. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
nothing to be sorry about, a couple of years ahead and using stuff like teletypes etc from when I was 11. (I was a precocious and obnoxious child, but I improved somewhat, I am no longer precocious).
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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:laugh: How I would laugh indeed to hear those words from one such as him.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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- Floppy disk Nobody uses them any more, and they never were floppy.
I have not used them for several years either, but they certainly were floppy (as in flexible) before the 3 1⁄2" came out. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
The disks are floppy even if the protective carriers aren't.
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I use tape all the time. As a verb. Why just yesterday I taped a message. On the side of my computer, so I would be reminded to do something. Floppy disks were indeed floppy. That was before they made them hard. Especially if you took them out of the wrapper they were in. Yes, after spilling a soft drink on a floppy, I did take one out, wash it off and put it in another so I could still use it. I figure the next best thing will be flexible electronics, so everything will be floppy again. So, if we shouldn't use "search engine", is it OK to use "search engines" to refer to the whole group of Bings and Googles and ... ?
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I remember old Apple IIE 5 1/2 soft sector disks. Someone once brought me a disk that they had removed from the shell and folded in half an put in a book. They wanted to read it again. I decided that the only way was to try. I took the disk and unfolded it and bent it in reverse across the edge of the table and rubbed the fold across the desk edge. I put the manfled disk back in the shell and put it in the reader. It trashed around with a great deal of noise, BUT THE DAMNED THING READ COMPLETELY (I was doing a dick copy in case this worked one time only).
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The disks are floppy even if the protective carriers aren't.
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The disks are floppy even if the protective carriers aren't.
It shows a distinct lack of intellectual curiosity that the journo didn't even open on up to see what was inside. He also didn't follow the logic through: the case it came in wasn't a disk either.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Obviously written by a 20-something douchebag with only a grammar school education. Artificial intelligence is a useful term for any application that deliberately emulates human reasoning to solve a problem. 'Surfing the web' is evocative of the experience: lightly touching here and there, occasionally dipping your toe in, drowning in the breakers if you're not careful. 'Web cam', a camera for putting pictures and video on the web. What's wrong with that? 'Tape' as a verb; we still use the phrases 'turn it up' or 'turn it down' for volume, don't we? Smartphones; not all of them are smart, thankfully, and they still make actual phone calls. At one time, floppy disks were indeed floppy[^].
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:) Yes, thank you! Since I am almost in my mid-forties, it makes me wonder how old the author of "Ten tech terms we could do without" is. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
SoMad wrote:
how old the author of "Ten tech terms we could do without" is.
12?
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- Floppy disk Nobody uses them any more, and they never were floppy.
I have not used them for several years either, but they certainly were floppy (as in flexible) before the 3 1⁄2" came out. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
The 3 1/2" discs were also floppy; it was the case that was rigid. If I put water in a steel canteen, the water is still liquid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The 3 1/2" discs were also floppy; it was the case that was rigid. If I put water in a steel canteen, the water is still liquid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I agree I probably should have noted this, but I am not sure the general public (those not on CodeProject) think about it that way - obviously the writer (I find it difficult to call him a journalist) never cracked open a 3 1/2" floppy disk case. Soren
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty