Hi Simon,
I'm sure others will answer this as well - and I may be completely wrong - but here's my twopen'orth: The first computers didn't have hard drives so everything was stored on floppy discs. When I first met floppies on the BBC computer they were five-and-a-quarter inches across and square. But they *were* floppy. Before long, the three-and-a-half inch "floppy disc" became ubiquitous. Teachers in the UK were confused and worried about children's understanding of maths and English. The floppy disc was, after all, neither floppy nor round. However, if you take one apart you do find a very floppy disc of magnetic material inside the hard square case. The old BBC disc held 100K of data (if memory serves). The standard 3.5 in floppy held 720K. Later a high density version was introduced which looked the same but held 1.44 megabytes of data. You had to have a high density disk drive to read it and these became standard very quickly. I think that's what your wife has found tucked inside the photo album. It probably has family photos on it. But am I right? It's only recently that computers have appeared with no floppy disc drive so surely we haven't forgotten what floppies are yet? Or have we? Others please correct me. Brian _____ From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of stuart warner Sent: 26 October 2009 10:55 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] 144 disk drive What is a 144 disc drive stuart w my wife has found a 144 disk tucked away in a photo album has any one got a portable drive I can use to get the data of the disk with for this coming meeting regards simon lea
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