3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
01:21
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 11/2/05, James Knott
wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote:
Most systems are coming through today with no floppies. My desktop system at work does not have a floppy, but does run SuSE 9.3 Professional. I just have not installed 10 on it.
Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
You forgot about tape based primary storage and punch cards. Used all of those circa 1980.
Something I never used was core memory. Little magnets with wires wrapped around them. One magnet per bit. I'll let the old guys on the list brag about those.
I have worked with both punch cards and paper tape. I even have some core memory here.