On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 03:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 8", notch is write protect; no notch is write enabled. > on 5.25", notch is write enabled; no notch is write protected. > I think that that justifies calling the 8" a "write protect notch", and > calling the 5.25" a "write enable notch".
I was not aware of that. Thank you, once again, ClassicCmp, for making me feel relatively young. I think I have seen live working systems with 8" floppies about twice in my entire working life, both in the late 1980s. I have never used a system with them, not even once. I'm 50 and my first memory of any kind is the first moon landing. Last night, in a pub quiz, which to the organizers' amazement we won -- we were the "old people" team (3 × ~50, 1 × ~35), when one of the questions was about "the early days of the old-time internet, if you're old and you've been online forever." It was about Myspace. >_< -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
