This is as good a time as any to post this:
As part of my YouTube channel, I need to put my hands on 70's and
80's era computers, preferably in working condition. If you have
any hardware of the era lying around, please give me a note.
And I do mean any
said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200
>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
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
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
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.
On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 18:06 +0200, Uri Bruck wrote:
> Floppies like these?
>
> https://fibersiv.net/threads/pieceinfo.html
>
> On
Floppies like these?
https://fibersiv.net/threads/pieceinfo.html
On 22.12.2021 21:27, Omer Zak wrote:
I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This
Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux
installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes)
