Unfortunately, the ad is for 5.25" floppy disks./QUOTE]
360K! Why would anyone ever need anymore storage???
And, nothing got faster since. The files just keep getting bigger and bigger but the time to load files, or launch the OS seems to be the same or longer than in 1990.I remember plugging in my first 5.5 in. drive. No more screechy tones listening to the audio cassette.
AND it only took 30 sec. or so to load a program.
It was very exciting to have a disk drive. The speed was like lightening.
It's better than 8 inch.
The first TRS-80 5 1/4 floppies were single sided 35 track single density disks with a whopping 90K capacity.360K! Why would anyone ever need anymore storage???
We used to punch a second index hole in them to turn them into flippies.The first TRS-80 5 1/4 floppies were single sided 35 track single density disks with a whopping 90K capacity.
The first TRS-80 5 1/4 floppies were single sided 35 track single density disks with a whopping 90K capacity.
Not if that's all you had. Ca 1980, I used a TRS-80 Model II to read order data from an IBM System 32 8" floppy, format it into orders and send them to the vendors via Western Union TWX. The TRS-80 ran Pickles & Trout CP/M and was programmed in assemblyIt's better than 8 inch.
Yes! People in graduate school lost lots of data in this years - less by the time the 3.5" disks came out. Anyhow, they would only send replacement disks, not 6 months of research.I'd like error free warranty on my HDD...
I'd say that today's technology is made to fail on purpose, otherwise they wouldn't be making any money selling you the same thing in other package the next year.Yes! People in graduate school lost lots of data in this years - less by the time the 3.5" disks came out. Anyhow, they would only send replacement disks, not 6 months of research.
by Aaron Carman
by Jake Hertz