I haven't used a 3" floppy disk in over 2-1/2 years

[Crazy Dave]

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.

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Heck, I used 8" floppies to compile CP/M systems

Only one of my 3 computers will take a 3.5" anymore, but it's still what I use when I want to wipe a hard drive with a manufacturer's utility disk.

[Xipe Totec]

5. I bow to thee,

Oh mighty Goddess of CP/M!

I remember 8" floppies, back in the days of dumb terminals.

*sigh*

[Deja Q]

2. You do realize I'm really hot on copycatting this thread...

O8)

Oh, I've used 8" floppies too. They're the best. They double as frisbees too.

[Crazy Dave]

3. Never used 8" floppys or know much about them

Were they the ones you had to use that had the programs or os on the disk itself?

[TheBaldyMan]

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.

[Fredda Weinberg]

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.