And you thought the floppy was dead? (1 Viewer)

arnelgp

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good to know, I've seen those big floppies when I was in college.
also during my college days, we also use cassette tapes (really the one used in Walkman) as storage medium.
 

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I still have a stack of punch cards for a program I wrote in college. I think the language was PL/1.
 

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I recall a purchase of a LOBO disk drive set up (2- 8 Inch floppy drives) for a TRS-80.
(Probably ~81-82 timeframe??)
I also have a few punch cards from university that I use as bookmarks in some older books.
 

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The article says they moved to a new solid-state system. USB thumb drives?

That would easily replace the 8 inch floppy. They might even have room for a more modern O/S on that setup. But you can bet they won't step to Windows 10. That O/S absolutely will NOT be happy if you don't patch it every so often. It will beg, whimper, and scream for a connection to the internet so that it can go suck on the Microsoft patch teat.
 

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Doc,
Are you working with your new machine? or is it the trusty, reliable, soon to be moth-balled one that always works?
 

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