Shaun, mate !

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It's funny Lee...I'm sitting here trying to think of the name of the super duper (then) disks, which were 'bigger' than floppy but about the size of a square digestive biscuit. And the drive / disk is called..?

 

[Fnaar]

He ripped open his Mac and flashed throgh her windows....

 

[Fnaar]

It's funny Lee...I'm sitting here trying to think of the name of the super duper (then) disks, which were 'bigger' than floppy but about the size of a square digestive biscuit. And the drive / disk is called..?

I had one of those with an Amstrad... I think it was called the penis disc... 5 1/4 inches (but mine was obviously bigger)

 

[Aperitif]

I had one of those with an Amstrad... I think it was called the penis disc... 5 1/4 inches (but mine was obviously bigger)

No, silly not the saucer sized ones - the square jobs If the brains of the


Forget it - "Zip drive"

 

[yenrod]

In 1971, IBM introduced the 8-inch floppy disk, initial capacity was about 100K bytes (100,000 characters)

In 1979 the Radio Shack TRS-80 II computer system had an internal 8-inch floppy drive capable of storing 500K of data.


http://oldcomputers.net/floppydisks.html

 

[Aperitif]

Zip drive in

 

[yenrod]

how com they get served and i dont on my bike.????

 

[Aperitif]

They threatened to poo on the drive if they didn't get served. You wouldn't do that would you?

 

[Fnaar]

how com they get served and i dont on my bike.????

Thy're just delivering the food... the two guys are pulling the cart home themselves!

 

[yenrod]

They threatened to poo on the drive if they didn't get served. You wouldn't do that would you?

It was a 'laugh' though, going round the drive thru' and the look on the girls face: then a sudden change to MacDonalds stoney faced employee.

 

[Shaun]

In 1986 when I started work for my first employer (who would employ me for the next 20 odd years) I started on a Radio Shack TRS-80 II computer system with an internal 8-inch floppy drive.

It also had two SCSI hard drives that were the size of a nowadays desktop tower PC. The size of the SCSI disks ... 8MB each.

The backups used to take 30 x 8-inch disks and take more than half a day to complete.

Sorry, just thought I'd share that with you all.

Cheers,
Shaun