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Floppy Disk
Floppy Disk
This photo was taken when floppy disks obviously ruled the computer world.
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Re: Floppy Disk
Here here now Yogi,
they sure beat lifting a stack of OPEN Platters from the 3 foot square hard drive, hi hi...
I'm referring to the WANG VS System we owned. I downsized to the WANG OIS System and sold the VS system to Tradin' Times newspaper.
The 8" floppies were only fair, but the 5-1/4" floppies were the best. I still have hundreds of them in my file cabinets here. Tossed several as they were copied to CDs, which was a mistake, CDs ROT, their recording surface corrodes and you lose your data.
The floppies I hated with a passion were the 3-1/2" jobbies.
Those things lost data so easily, when companies I worked with started using them, we went from having to mail ONE 5-1/4 floppy, to mailing a minimum of THREE 3-1/2" floppies in hopes one of them would still be good at the other end.
When we could finally transfer data safely over the Internet, using encrypted e-mail files, we no longer had to rely on getting a lousy 3-1/2" floppy to work.
It's a shame the new computers can't read 5-1/4 floppies, as the data on them will be good forever, hi hi...
Even if there are no programs which can read them anymore.
they sure beat lifting a stack of OPEN Platters from the 3 foot square hard drive, hi hi...
I'm referring to the WANG VS System we owned. I downsized to the WANG OIS System and sold the VS system to Tradin' Times newspaper.
The 8" floppies were only fair, but the 5-1/4" floppies were the best. I still have hundreds of them in my file cabinets here. Tossed several as they were copied to CDs, which was a mistake, CDs ROT, their recording surface corrodes and you lose your data.
The floppies I hated with a passion were the 3-1/2" jobbies.
Those things lost data so easily, when companies I worked with started using them, we went from having to mail ONE 5-1/4 floppy, to mailing a minimum of THREE 3-1/2" floppies in hopes one of them would still be good at the other end.
When we could finally transfer data safely over the Internet, using encrypted e-mail files, we no longer had to rely on getting a lousy 3-1/2" floppy to work.
It's a shame the new computers can't read 5-1/4 floppies, as the data on them will be good forever, hi hi...
Even if there are no programs which can read them anymore.