2 Jul
2004
2 Jul
'04
14:26
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:24, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Knott
[07-02-04 06:50]: peter Nikolic wrote:
Floppies in any guise are shureley well past there sell by date now so many machines are now being produced minus floppy the death knell is upon them memory sticks are so much better
It's been a while, since I've seen PCs capable of using 8" floppies. ;-)
Like 30 years <grin>.
Closer to 20 years. I worked in a shop in the mid eighties that used 8" floppies.
I used to support some minicomputers that used them. The Data General "Eclipse' computers just used them as another drive, but the VAX 11/780 used them to load the microcode, during boot. The first time I saw them, was on an IBM computer, around 1976.