On 27/10/2009 Brian Smith wrote: > But am I right? Its only recently that computers have appeared with > no floppy disc drive so surely we havent forgotten what floppies are > yet? Or have we?
the "true" flexible cardboard style floppy is probably but a distant memory. I used one of the first IBM PCs with twin floppies, the OS on one to boot then put your software in it while using the other for data, at least that's wha tI recall. Then we upgraded it by fitting a 20 MB hard drive (no that isn't a typo !) with a half height floppy drive to accomodate it. Funny thing is the 8086 processor with tiny RAM and DOS would run a 123 spreadsheet as fast as the latest rocket ship from PC World will run Excel under windows, and we didn't get RSI from a rodent :-) Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
