2 Jul
2004
2 Jul
'04
18:22
Doug McGarrett wrote:
I still had some until I moved 7 months ago and threw them all out, along with the BigBoard machine that used them.
Of course, now that you've done that, you'll be needing them next week. ;-)
For newbies, they held 240K and you could get the CPM operating system on one and still have room for a few programs, including, iirc, WordStar, in its early incarnations. I paid >$200 each for 2 _used_ 8" drives! This was back in 1982.
My first computer, an IMSAI 8080, cost me about $2000, back in 1976. That was with 4 KB of memory and no I/O, beyond the front panel! It was fun though, and back in those days, you certainly knew your computer and software.