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re: Under 25... do you even know what an A drive and a B drive is on a PC?
Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:13 pm to vodka
Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:13 pm to vodka
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they stopped making PC's with those in the early 2000's.
And people born in the late 90s would’ve been in elementary school then and elementary schools then used computer labs quite a bit. So yes most people 20-25 should know what floppy disks are.
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Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:23 pm to vodka
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This post was edited on 10/15/18 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:05 pm to TigerBR1111
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
There is a small mailbox here.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:15 pm to vodka
Press play on tape, bitches.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:17 pm to Jackie Chan
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do you even know what a magnetic tape drive or a cartridge system magnetic disc is on an IBM mainframe?
IBM still messes with the magnetic tape.
IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:19 pm to arkiebrian
38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:34 pm to Bestbank Tiger
The 5.25 floppy disk had what - a 30 year run?
Posted on 10/15/18 at 10:25 pm to vodka
HAHA But wasn't it 3 1/4" disk?
Posted on 10/15/18 at 10:57 pm to vodka
We still have archived data on 8 1/2 inch disks. No way to read them anymore, but we have them.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:15 pm to vodka
quote:The size
Do you know the difference between a 3 inch disk and a 5 inch floppy disk?
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:22 pm to arkiebrian
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IBM still messes with the magnetic tape.
Not only messes, but it's the best large scale data backup that we have right now.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:24 pm to elprez00
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Technically it’s 3.5” and 5.25”
What's crazy is that's still the standard size for mechanical drives (3.5) and optical drives (5.25)
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:28 pm to vodka
Oh it's the save icon.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:01 am to Jackie Chan
quote:Wrote basic code for a class at LaTech in the 80's using punch cards. If/then/else coding. Had to wait in line to run it on the mainframe.
Under 45...do you even know what a magnetic tape drive or a cartridge system magnetic disc is on an IBM mainframe?
Have you ever seen a SMS card? Do you know the difference between a single width and a double width card?
they stopped making mainframes with those in the early 1970s
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:19 am to vodka
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:27 am to Sidicous
37 here. My first pc was a 386sx, 25 mhz processor, 2 mb of ram, 30 mb hard drive.
I don't miss running MemMaker and configuring the autoexec.bat and config.sys files just to get certain games to run.
640k conventional memory sucked donkey.
Back in the day you had to manually input the number of sectors, tracks, and cylinders into BIOS just to get a hard drive running.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then you are spoiled. Everything is plug and play now.
I don't miss running MemMaker and configuring the autoexec.bat and config.sys files just to get certain games to run.
640k conventional memory sucked donkey.
Back in the day you had to manually input the number of sectors, tracks, and cylinders into BIOS just to get a hard drive running.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then you are spoiled. Everything is plug and play now.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:28 am to dbeck
dir/p/w
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:27 am to Jim Rockford
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We still have archived data on 8 1/2 inch disks. No way to read them anymore, but we have them.
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The Air Force was still using 8 inch floppys at ICBM sites in 2016, they were scheduled to be phased out in 2017, would bet money they are still using them,
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:31 am to dbeck
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37 here
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Back in the day you had to manually input the number of sectors, tracks, and cylinders into BIOS just to get a hard drive running.
Sorry you were 10-12 years behind 3.1
Posted on 10/16/18 at 5:12 am to vodka
Do you know why you would get a boot error if a floppy was in the drive?
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