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Otto Von Herunterhängen
Floppy disks?? 😉
8" disks were floppy. 5" disks were floppy. 3.5" disks are NOT floppy!
They were when you pulled the magnetic media out. Then again they didn't work so hot afterwards. So what do you call them, stiffies? 😂
I don't even remember. I think that we called them floppies; we just hated ourselves for doing so.
The media itself was flexible unlike the platters in HDD's so if floppy was referring to the media rather than the casing it was probably accurate either way. I've used all of them, the 8" on an IBM Series one and for booting a System/36.
My very first home computer was an IBM PCjr. No hard drive. Just dual floppies. You boot DOS on the one, then run programs on the other. hehe
That system/36 I worked on, this was back in 1988, had four 600mb hard drives for a total of 2.4 GB. You know, what a really small USB drive will hold. They cost $40,000 each and were pretty hefty in size, the box they came in was around 3 feet round by 2 feet deep.
At the time Dad had a IBM PC XT with a 5 mb hard drive. It cost him $5,000 256K of memory and a monochrome monitor.
At the time Dad had a IBM PC XT with a 5 mb hard drive. It cost him $5,000 256K of memory and a monochrome monitor.
I've never heard of a system/36. Like a mainframe or something?
It was categorized as a super-mini, mainframes of the day were of course room sized, this thing was more the size of a large couch.
Fucking badass!!! 😱
I used to have hundreds of those 3.5" disks. My Dad brought home WordPerfect 4.2 from his job, and it was like ten 5 1/4" floppies. hehe
Here you go, Mr Morbis. One just for you.
Put this on and take one of your Weed Gummies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUxQp5SVtw&t=1s
Put this on and take one of your Weed Gummies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUxQp5SVtw&t=1s
If you worked with 8"ers (like I did0, you is old! LOL
I used the 5.25" floppies. King's Quest 4 (one of the first computer games I ever bought) was like 10 floppy disks. lol
I did my programming assignments in college on punch card machines. That old 👻
LOL
Me too! Our COBOL professor taught us the importance of sequence numbers by tossing our deck back to us. If cards fell out and they weren't sequenced. too bad so sad! LOL
One of my sisters did Cobol in college if I remember correctly. Also Pascal?
Pascal was originally a teaching language, Borland got a hold of it and made a production version which ended up in Object Oriented form as Delphi.
In the 1980's it could have been Pascal, Fortran and COBOL, and Basic on the PC. IBM systems it was JCL and RPG III. C was also around, it wasn't taught at undergraduate level until a bit later. Assembler was also taught, for those that like to cook from raw ingredients 😉
In the 1980's it could have been Pascal, Fortran and COBOL, and Basic on the PC. IBM systems it was JCL and RPG III. C was also around, it wasn't taught at undergraduate level until a bit later. Assembler was also taught, for those that like to cook from raw ingredients 😉
In the mid 90's I ran a BBS. For $80 I think it was, I was sent the source code for the program I used (WWIV) and I got Turbo C++. I spent the next several years learning to code on my own. Great fun!!
Pascal, Fortran and COBOL, and Basic on the PC, JCL, C, Assembler
Learned all of these -- used Fortran, COBOL, and Basic extensively -- COBOL until about 2016.
Learned all of these -- used Fortran, COBOL, and Basic extensively -- COBOL until about 2016.
Yes I'm familiar with all of those. My first programming was with Basic. Then I learned batch files, and later C. C was my favorite! Now-a-days I do PHP.
We actually started in Assembler -- making the lights on the PDP-8 blink on and off, then moved to Basic
I used to make music with Basic. Just various tones all in a row. hehe