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[Trying2keepitReal]

my daughter officially applied to colleges today-the big ones she is hoping to get into are Clemson University and Johnson and Whales in Providence. Anyone gonna look after her for me? LOL

 

[flowerbug]

for some other fun with computer history look at what the tape and disk drives used to look like. in our case a single drive for the tapes was about 1/2 - 2/3rds the size of a refridgerator and the disk drive was about the size of a washing machine.

 

[tortoise]

I REFUSE to do anything except a double space after a period!

I will not change!!!!

same! Now when I type documents I have to use find/replace feature and search for period-space-space.

 

[flowerbug]

same! Now when I type documents I have to use find/replace feature and search for period-space-space.

you mean i can't put two spaces after a period any more? i didn't know that was an issue... (now i'm curious if i must put six spaces after a dot dot dot...)

 

[Dreamz]

i have used 8 inch floppy disks, and also the smaller versions that were common when the IBM PCs were first coming out. up until a few years ago i had a working one for any disks that people might want help getting things off of, but i've since gotten rid of about a whole closet full of old computer stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg

hmm, can't get either of those to show up right so i dunno what's going on there but that should work if clicked on...

the first two versions 8 inch and 5&1/4 inch were definitely floppy so the name was apt. the smaller 3&1/2 inch had a harder shell so they weren't what i'd call floppy, but they did show up on the computers under the floppy disk drive interfaces so that name still is used for those (even if it isn't fitting).

nowadays people mostly use USB sticks or do everything on the cloud (so no physical media is required at all), if there are wireless gadgets for transporting stuff around i've not looked into those. no need for them by me...

Floppy disks? I have a lot of those somewhere, lol
I also have vhs tapes and player which still works and used them. Yeap, I am that age,lol

 

[Mini Horses]

Can you say 8 inch floppy disks

My....do I ever remember!!! Still have a record player....it sits....rolls of home movies I need to have digitized.

 

[flowerbug]

When we moved up here the local hardware store still had dot matrix printers.

They only upgraded 2 years back.

I LOVED going in there and getting my receipt from the dot matrix printer! Ah! The memories!!

they still make them and have USB connections. not sure about wireless.

there are certain applications and work environment where dot matrix is still a good fit.

 

[flowerbug]

My....do I ever remember!!! Still have a record player....it sits....rolls of home movies I need to have digitized.

vinyl is back in popularity.

 

[flowerbug]

Bards Tale on the Amiga was great, but i didn't get enough time to play it.

as in another throw back to ancient times up until a few years ago i used to keep a spreadsheet in MultiPlan that i could run in dosbox on my linux setup. finally one year i converted those to libreoffice calc and i've been happy with that since then.

oh and at one time i did have a Paradox database but i didn't use it for very much.

 

[CrealCritter]

Anytime anyone mentions floppy disc, commander keen comes to mind.

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