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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/10 14:26:47 (permalink)
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I kept a FORTRAN deck for it for ages.  That went out with the 8" floppies years ago.




8" floppies were the schnizzle!  So much better than a cheap tape record and cassettes (which was the upgrade to having to retype every program from scratch from a printout or hand-written piece of paper!). 

 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/10 14:45:25 (permalink)
Cassette tape was the only mass storage my TRS-80 Model I had.  The Model 4P I had later had dual 5-1/4 floppies.  The Kaypro 16 that replaced the 4P had dual 2 DSDD 5-1/4s.  I replaced one of them with a 10M MFM hard drive that I thought I would NEVER fill up.
 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/10 15:26:34 (permalink)


 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/10 15:28:35 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/08/10 16:06:01


 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 11:47:11 (permalink)
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Cassette tape was the only mass storage my TRS-80 Model I had.  The Model 4P I had later had dual 5-1/4 floppies.  The Kaypro 16 that replaced the 4P had dual 2 DSDD 5-1/4s.  I replaced one of them with a 10M MFM hard drive that I thought I would NEVER fill up.
 
That Kaypro brings back sad memories of being married to my practice wife.




The first time I bought floppy disks, I was disappointed that they were only available in a box of 10. I put an entire shoebox full of cassettes (2 years' worth of programming) onto two floppies, and wondered what the heck I was ever going to do with the other 8 disks.
 


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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 11:58:43 (permalink)
I only used 8" for a short time before the 5-1/4"s started becoming common.  I used 5-/14" a lot - I think I still have an old Commodore 5-1/4" drive.  that thing is MONSTEROUS!  I bet it weighs 20 pounds!
 
I remember when the 3.5" first came out...I thought they'd never "catch on" - I never said I was a prophet! LOL!
 
I also remember my first hard drive!  I installed it myself into my Tandy 1000SX which had come with (2) 5-1/4" floppy drives.  I'd load the OS from one and had data on the other.
 
then I installed a 20 MEG hard drive CARD into an open ISA slot!!!!  MAN!  THAT WAS THE SHIZZLE!!!!
 
 

 
 


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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 12:37:55 (permalink)
I guess I must be younger than some of you old geezers. :)
 
My only dealing with cassette tapes was for an Altair 8800A that we had in electronics class. Most notable was having to load the bootstrap in manually from the front panel just so the rest could then be read and loaded from the cassette (no ROM/PROM). 2K of memory with a monochrome monitor but we were thrilled to have it. To look back at it now, it was a buggy freaking thing though... Side note, it was destroyed when our teacher was fixing something when a bare spot on the soldering iron cord touched the chassis. He was selling sail boats at the beginning of the next school year and we had some geek from Sperry/Univac as a teacher.
 
I too had a 5-1/4" for my Commodore. After the keyboard on the Commode cratered, I bought my first bare bones "PC". All my computer literate friends thought I was completely crazy when I bought a Seagate 130MB hard drive for it. They kept telling me I would never use it all.

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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 15:26:17 (permalink)
I still remember paying $540 for a 10Mb hard drive (the last drive I would ever need!  LOL.).
 
Now I have almost 0.2 Pb's (that's Peta bytes) worth of hard drives... 

 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 16:02:29 (permalink)
Apparently (or so I am told), when they made the first 10mb harddrive, they made a 20mb too just because they could, but said that no one would ever fill up the 10mb harddrive.
 
I like to take out the strong magnets from unused harddrives.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/11 22:28:30 (permalink)
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I like to take out the strong magnets from unused harddrives.




Damn those magnets are fun, aren't they?  At my last place we had them up on the fridge and even the walls that didn't have metal on them (they were powerful enough to connect with the nails in the studs behind the drywall!).  

 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/12 01:15:21 (permalink)
Tho pretty common for residential & commercial bldgs. to have metal studs these days....
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/12 14:11:13 (permalink)
We used to use magnets to attach witty sayings to our office cubicle partitions. My cubicle neighbor tried using them to organize his 5.25" floppies. And then complained that IT kept giving him bad floppy drives, saying we were keeping the good ones for ourselves. We made it up to him by supplying the first cordless mouse in the office. Not wireless, just cordless.


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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/12 14:54:12 (permalink)
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We used to use magnets to attach witty sayings to our office cubicle partitions. My cubicle neighbor tried using them to organize his 5.25" floppies. And then complained that IT kept giving him bad floppy drives, saying we were keeping the good ones for ourselves. We made it up to him by supplying the first cordless mouse in the office. Not wireless, just cordless.




Amazingly, these types always seem to be fast-tracked to management... *Sigh...*

 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test 2016/08/14 04:00:06 (permalink)
WPS (work place sabotage)?
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