On Friday 02 July 2004 07:50, James Knott wrote:
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. ;-)
I still had some until I moved 7 months ago and threw them all out, along with the BigBoard machine that used them. 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. Thanx to the people who contributed answers to the original posting. --doug