Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8" diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes (from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more. My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so. אורי u...@speedy.net
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 2:58 AM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Omer Zak said on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:32:56 +0200 > > >My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5" > >diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new. > >No 5.25" diskettes. > >No 8" diskettes. > > LOL, my first job in the computer industry was as a receptionist at one > of those early computer stores that catered to business. CPM, hard > disk, Wordstar, spreadsheet and Dbase. And 8 inch floppies. > > This was February or March of 1984, and we were still emerging from the > 1982-83 recession, so in spite of the fact that in school I wrote a > Cobol program that would take, as input, another Cobol program, and > output a function decomposition diagram of the input, complete with > branches, loops and procedure calls, nobody would hire me. So I became a > receptionist in order to get a "computer job". > > Two months later I had a real job as a Pascal programmer (remember, bad > economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB Winchester > removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial terminals. I > never saw an 8 inch floppy again. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful > Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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