Actually the Bill gates quote was not his he never said it and it wasn't about 1 meg it was "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
-----Original Message----- From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Smith Sent: 27 October 2009 11:55 To: 'Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts' Subject: Re: [Peterboro] 144 disk drive Ah yes. People so often wonder why the Hard drive on a PC is always called 'C'. It's because you *had* to have two floppy drives - one to hold the floppy contain the OS and one to hold a floppy for your data. DOS = Disc-based Operating System (Am I right?) and yes, DOS used to fit on a 720K floppy. Indeed, Windows 95 was said to be so-called because it took 95 floppy discs to install it (and yes, it did come on floppies or CD - you chose which). What was Bill Gates' famous saying? I think it was, "I can't see anyone ever needing more than one megabyte". Hey ho. How we larf. Brian PS a friend of mine installed DOS 3.1 on a Pentium II computer some years ago. Apparently it started up pretty damned instantly LOL. -----Original Message----- From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson Sent: 27 October 2009 11:39 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] 144 disk drive On 27/10/2009 Brian Smith wrote: > But am I right? Its only recently that computers have appeared with > no floppy disc drive so surely we havent forgotten what floppies are > yet? Or have we? the "true" flexible cardboard style floppy is probably but a distant memory. I used one of the first IBM PCs with twin floppies, the OS on one to boot then put your software in it while using the other for data, at least that's wha tI recall. Then we upgraded it by fitting a 20 MB hard drive (no that isn't a typo !) with a half height floppy drive to accomodate it. Funny thing is the 8086 processor with tiny RAM and DOS would run a 123 spreadsheet as fast as the latest rocket ship from PC World will run Excel under windows, and we didn't get RSI from a rodent :-) Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Introducing Branchr Super Simple Advertising http://click.lavabit.com/?pub=78&ad=0023&url=aHR0cDovL2JyYW5jaHIuY29tLw== ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
