11-04-2008, 05:19 PM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
yes
 I had a 5.25" on my old BBC Micro... hell, I also had a tape drive.. 20 minutes to load a program, then you'd have to start again 'cos something had gone wrong.. those were the days
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17-04-2008, 11:24 AM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
ahhh floppies, the good (?) old days ^^
I remember replacing my tape drive for Commodore 64 with a 5.25" floppy, now that was uber!
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17-04-2008, 02:53 PM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
5.25"
The PDP 11's I used to manage booted from 8" disks, the VAX used 5.25's but they were hard sectors rather than the soft sector ones used on PC's. Backups were open reel tape and took a whole day to run. The custom engineering Unix box (Valid) we had took 2 days to backup to tape.
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21-04-2008, 08:07 PM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
PDP 11/73's and 83's! There's another blast from the past!
I used to sell DEC hardware. I was just talking to a friend about this recently; I remember when the new RA92 harddrive was released for the newer VAX series, 1.2GB and the size of a filing cabinet drawer! It's amazing how physically tiny diskdrives are now
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21-04-2008, 08:22 PM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
Someone else who's heard of a VAX and doesn't think they are orange and clean carpets
The tape backups have got so much better as well, we used to have TK50's on the microVAX's, they are now DLT drives and can hold 80Gb, I thought the original 50Mb was huge Bring back RA60's, you knew you had a "proper" drive with these. You also knew about it by the time you'd done a backup on them and carted them to the fire safe on the other side of site.
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21-04-2008, 08:26 PM
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Re: Do you still use floppies?
'Proper drives' lol, indeed, they were big heavy bulky items for sure. Back-ache much?
 Those were big money-making days for me. I worked for a 'grey importer' back then, bringing in shedloads of DECservers from the USA and undercutting the official DEChouses by an obscene amount and still making a massive profit. Great days indeed 
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