I remember when floppys were 8 inches

hippikon

I remember when floppys were 8 inches, then 5¼, now 3½ - talk about deflation with age. But at least my 3½ lasts for 100 Mb

SYN

Yeah, I still remember those "WANG" disk drives, hehe...

Simon

I have a little iddy-biddy memory stick, smaller than a stick of gum ...

... would you believe I can make a copy of the forum onto it !

NoMoreJW

and when a 40mb hard drive was the size of a washing machine!

Not only do I remember when floppies were 8", I remember than a "single density IBM" format of those floppies yielded a whopping 90K of storage! Later, a "double density" format was able to yield about 1 mb. My first software company sold my programs on those same diskettes.

The first computer program I wrote was on a Commodore "Pet" computer and its only storage medium was a cassette tape! A program of about twenty pages took twenty minutes to load! When the computer booted, the screen showed the following message which bragged about the incredible amount of memory housed in that powerhouse of a computer:

"2,076 bytes free."

Farkel

El Kabong

So, smaller is better????? (I've been saying that for years )

SheilaM

Now don't laugh but I can remember walking by the "geek lab" in High School it had a couple of HUGE computers in it in 1982 and I can remember thinking "How stupid why would anyone waste their time sitting in front of that, what a buncha geeks"Err I compare that thought to the patent office in like 1863 or so they said "eveything that can be invented has" LOL