As some of you already know - I have a load of this old gear at home. :) As well as the known 5 1/4 and 3.5" disks, you also had 8" disks, 3" disks, LS120(3.5", but 100Mb!) and a few more like zip and jazz disks.
Here is a 3" disk that held less that 200k per side. If you wanted side B, you had to eject the disk and flip it over - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/3312740646/in/set-72157607760086096/ Here is a 32MB hard disk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/3973130172/in/set-72157607953575016/ If anyone would like to see any of these disks tonight, please let me know! Or, if you want to see any machines in my collection, let me know and I may be able to bring it tonight! :) I will also bring a USB 1.44Mb floppy drive with me for the person who wants to retrieve data from that floppy disk. -- Andy Taylor http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com ________________________________ From: Phil Thompson <p...@yarwell.demon.co.uk> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009 11:39:22 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
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