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10/07/2008 07:57:59 PM · #1 |
really cleaning out the closet .... |
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10/07/2008 08:09:14 PM · #2 |
| I did that a while ago. I haven't had a floppy for over 6 years now on my pc's. I felt sad though... |
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10/07/2008 08:24:58 PM · #3 |
| think the last time any were touched was 2002 or so / but some early 90s and even late 80s .. gawd i'm such a packrat .. |
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10/07/2008 08:57:20 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by ralph:
think the last time any were touched was 2002 or so / but some early 90s and even late 80s .. gawd i'm such a packrat .. |
Thought I was king packrat but you've taken the crown. I threw diskettes out with Doom 1 and 2 on them. Early SW games like Xwing vs Tie Fighter. Those were the days... |
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10/07/2008 09:02:07 PM · #5 |
| I see you even have some 5 1/4's in there. I don't mourn the death of the floppy disk at all. The last thing I ever used one for was 2-3 years ago to upgrade a late 90's print controller that could only take system code through a floppy drive. (What a pain!) |
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10/07/2008 09:26:14 PM · #6 |
Ha! I've got all y'all beat.
Apple IIe complete with 5 1/4s.
:P |
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10/07/2008 09:32:58 PM · #7 |
oohh . Apple IIe
that does even my fatherinlaws Commodore 64 !!
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10/07/2008 09:33:34 PM · #8 |
| My sister had a (rented) computer in the '80s. Cassette tape, mate - those were the days. ;-) |
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10/07/2008 09:54:19 PM · #9 |
I once had a computer that only had an 8gb hard drive, whew - those were the days. ;-) Dang I'm young.
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10/07/2008 10:26:08 PM · #10 |
well i still have my 42meg hard card (full size to fit in a AT) / this should still boot ..
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10/07/2008 10:26:50 PM · #11 |
| My first computer was a Vic20 and my memory media was cassettes, a picture of which you can see on that page. So there. |
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10/07/2008 10:36:20 PM · #12 |
I remember in college. . . my buddy upgraded to a 300MB hard drive!
We gave him no end of grief. "How are you ever going to fill that thing up?"
:) |
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10/07/2008 10:37:10 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
My sister had a (rented) computer in the '80s. Cassette tape, mate - those were the days. ;-) |
Cassette tape and an old B/W TV for a monitor. I actually wrote a program so I could get mixed case for resumes and such on an Apple II+.
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10/07/2008 10:39:24 PM · #14 |
| Just last night I had to bust out a SCSI slide scanner. I had to dig out 4 SCSI cards to find one that still worked. |
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10/07/2008 10:49:32 PM · #15 |
Ha! anyone want to buy a SCSI Zip drive and 6-8 Zip disks?!?
How about a SCSI to USB conversion cable?
edit to add: I'm pretty sure I still have an old 44MB Syquest external drive around too, also SCSI. and then there's the SCSI CD burner.......
Message edited by author 2008-10-07 22:52:15.
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10/07/2008 10:56:40 PM · #16 |
| I had 8086 computer and then upgrade it to 80386, old B/W system with 1.2M floppy disk, I might have those 1.2 disks somewhere in the trash :) |
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10/07/2008 11:23:40 PM · #17 |
Not the oldest thing mentioned, but I have an Apple newton hanging around somewhere. Also some 8" floppies in a box somewhere. (Never used them, just bought a couple cause they were cool looking. I may make a clock out of one.)
Message edited by author 2008-10-07 23:23:50. |
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10/07/2008 11:25:58 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by karmat:
Ha! I've got all y'all beat.
Apple IIe complete with 5 1/4s.
:P |
OMG Karma, do you have access to that beast?
I have something trapped on a 5 1/4 from our IIe days that I reallllllllly would love to free from its cage... :( |
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10/07/2008 11:31:02 PM · #19 |
| C'mon folks...I started with 8" floppies on a Model IV Tandy with a Model 100 lap top for travel. Still have couple of 8"'s around somewhere I can't back up! |
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10/07/2008 11:52:51 PM · #20 |
I've still got an AT&T PC6300 in the basement, and I'm sure it will still boot. It has dual floppies and a 20 meg (yes, meg) hard drive. The hard drive was an expensive option at the time (1985). I have both the original "green screen" monitor, and a color monitor that has some rudimentary graphics capability.
I also happen to have a copy of the very first "desk calculator" that had no tubes (except for the display). It was made by Friden, cost $2500 in 1964, was completely obsolete less than 5 years later, and is the size of a typewriter on steroids. It uses torque pulses on stretched wires to store data, and uses RPN entry and a stack, just like good modern scientific calculators. |
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10/07/2008 11:53:34 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by karmat:
Ha! I've got all y'all beat.
Apple IIe complete with 5 1/4s.
:P |
I don't know if anyone else look closely at the picture. I found this funny :)
[thumb]729365[/thumb] |
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10/07/2008 11:57:05 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Originally posted by karmat:
Ha! I've got all y'all beat.
Apple IIe complete with 5 1/4s.
:P |
OMG Karma, do you have access to that beast?
I have something trapped on a 5 1/4 from our IIe days that I reallllllllly would love to free from its cage... :( |
It is in our basement, where we have our classroom. And it still works. Or it did the last time I booted it up. We kinda go boot to boot. :)
The dinosaur is ironic. :) |
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10/08/2008 01:04:47 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by pgirish007:
I had 8086 computer and then upgrade it to 80386, old B/W system with 1.2M floppy disk, I might have those 1.2 disks somewhere in the trash :) |
Yeah... Used those... Was a BIG deal when we got a new machine had a hard drive :-) God I miss those old IBM steel machines - could pound on the keyboard no issues.... These new ones don't stand up to my "touch" typing cause I grew up on the indestructible keyboards. My first programs were on card though, so that dates me a little more then others I see with actual hard drives :-( |
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10/08/2008 04:55:16 AM · #24 |
| Hmmm... I might still have some punchcards around, come to think of it... |
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10/08/2008 05:10:25 AM · #25 |
| I got my start on a Texas Instruments TI-99A. It didn't even have a floppy drive. It used a tape recorder, it would save things as tones on the tape that could then be played back. And we thought it was awesome. I learned how to program with BASIC on that computer, but we didn't have a reliable tape recorder so I usually had to rewrite my little programs each time. Then my brother got an Apple IIe, with dual floppy drives, OMG it was soooo high tech! Hehehe, those were the good ole days. |
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