Matthew Schalit wrote:
>
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >
> > At 08:37 AM 7/13/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hilton Travis wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Are those the 8" floppy disks?
> > >
> > >I think the 8" floppy disks never held more than 250KB at most, anyway.
> >
> > Actually, Jeff, us old timers remember them growing to the *huge* (at the
> > time, anyway) capacity of 1.2 MB. I ran my first real CP/M compiler (Digital
> > Research Pascal, I think) on a dual-8 system.
> Ah yes, the joy of loading Wordstar on a CP/M off of an 8"
> diskette and fighting through that revolutionary user
> interface of theirs.
I remember running Wordstar on Apple II CP/M - or compiling with Turbo
Pascal or Small-C. In fact, I put that Apple II CP/M machine on the
"Internet" (look up deety.uucp in the UUCP maps....)
Unlike many, I liked CP/M - still do - I really do miss ZCPR3 (a later
enhanced CP/M lookalike for Z80s).
But that machine never got used, and it was not doing me any good
lugging it around (sigh).
I remember when the Apple II 3.5" disk drives came out - as Apple II
users, we went from 140k to 800k overnight. Paid $400 for one of
those...
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