I haven't used a 3" floppy disk in over 2-1/2 years
Just realized that today as I was doing some cleaning and organizing. Got a whole box still unopened. It made remember my first computer I bought that no longer had a 5-1/4" floppy drive and I was wondering how I'd ever get by without one. My guess is CD-R's will be the next thing to go into the history books and scrap piles being totally replaced by DVD-R's, until something else comes along.
4. they came in a cardboard sleeve and really were floppy. Hence the name.
I worked on a mainframe many moons ago that had to be booted with (IIRC) a 10" floppy. Just the HW boot routines that got the tape & card reader routines going. The CPU was ferrite magnetic core and was the size of a soda vending machine.
6. The O/S in those days had to be compiled for the hw config
No plug and play in those days. If you had a particular hard drive, you compiled the operating system with the manufacturer's drivers. Everyone had agreed on the S-100 bus, but that was as far as standards went.
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