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Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: Boroda on July 30, 2004, 01:23:11 PM

It's definetly HD (1.2Mb) floppy. Otherwise total disk number could be much bigger...

But the label says it's a 2S-2D floppy - so it's a fake ;)

(http://nnm.ru/pict/disk1_459.jpg)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: AKIron on July 30, 2004, 01:24:31 PM

Damn, haven't you guys stolen, er, invented CDROM Drives over there yet? ;)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: JB73 on July 30, 2004, 01:25:43 PM

i still got some 5 1/4 floppies from my apple IIc

kareteka, captian goodnight, appleworks, burgertime, lode runner, and some others.

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: Boroda on July 30, 2004, 01:43:42 PM

Last system I have installed from floppys was OS/2 ver.3 "Warp". Only 24 (or maybe 26?) 3.5" floppys formatted to 2.0Mb :)

Just checked in my closet at work - I still have Windows 1.03 and MS-DOS 3.30 on 5.25" disks :D

I think it's a good joke. Still remember when I worked on IBM/360 clone (ES-1022) made in 1978 that could handle 20 terminals without any problems. That machine had 128Kb RAM and ran jobs from perforated cards ;)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: rpm on July 30, 2004, 02:36:02 PM

WOW! Is that a kerosene powered computer?

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: JB73 on July 30, 2004, 02:41:39 PM

less than 5 years ago i was working as a QC supervisor at a photo lab. once per week we had to back up our printer settings (kodak printers.. about $150,000 a piece).

we used 8" floppies (who remembers those??!)

the drives would go bad and this old crotchety maintenence guy would spend a whole day fixing them.

lost about 3-4 disks a month to bad drives.

boy it's hard to buy those nowadays.

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: vorticon on July 30, 2004, 02:51:15 PM

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/53_1091217038_disks.jpg)

:)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: AKIron on July 30, 2004, 03:04:24 PM

Since we're showing off old junk here are a few: (have many more)

(http://www.inettek.com/stuff/disks.jpg)

And even older:

(http://www.inettek.com/stuff/tape.jpg)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: SlapShot on July 30, 2004, 03:39:33 PM

Was working for Timex Corporation back in 1981 when myself and another senior programmer were assigned to a special project.

We had to write the first demo programs for the TS ZX-81 (Sinclair) that Timex wanted to market.

We wrote a pacman clone in 8080 Assembler. If I remember correctly, we only had 4 registers to work with ... got very tricky but we did it. Storage was to tape only ... sweated it everytime we dumped to it.

Anyways, when it went to market in the Radio Shack stores, the demo game was called "Grimm's Fairy Trails" ... the senior guy's name that I worked with was George Grimm. We had a blast working with this thing.

(http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/timex/images/ts1000ad.jpg)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: vorticon on July 30, 2004, 03:40:15 PM

oh and boroda i believe that disk says 1 of 489...thanks iron i always wondered what c64 software that was actually payed for looked like...

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: AKIron on July 30, 2004, 04:04:24 PM

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Originally posted by vorticon
oh and boroda i believe that disk says 1 of 489...thanks iron i always wondered what c64 software that was actually payed for looked like...

hehe, I was careful not to scan a pic of those others. ;)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: vorticon on July 30, 2004, 04:16:24 PM

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Originally posted by AKIron
hehe, I was careful not to scan a pic of those others. ;)

hehe...i just noticed i did to, other than the geos disks,bagasarus and spellakazam thats my complete set of legal software (well, its all second hand anyway but shhh)

Title: Disk 1 of 419
Post by: Gunslinger on July 30, 2004, 05:55:42 PM

I had a "trial" ;) version of photoshop 4.0 and it was on 45 3.5" disks.  Awww the days.