Giulia 🥛 
This is making me die of old age
Jos Dingjan@ActuallyAubrey Even worse: the save icon is derived from the _new_ format.
Imma crumble to dust here.
UkeleleEric@happydisciple Is the old format you were referring to 5 inch or 8 inch floppy? Or the big removable hard-drive caddys shaped like a load of plates in a stack, or punch cards...
@UkeleleEric I’ve only ever owned computers with 5 1/4 inch as oldest tech, but worked with 8 inch. Punch cards were before my time.
@happydisciple I worked with 5 1/4 myself, and some of the newer ones later. Also cassette tape with my ZX Spectrum...
@UkeleleEric My best mate in school had an MSX, and my uncles a C64 with tape drive, but that was before we had a computer ourselves.
Oyu F'ka@happydisciple @UkeleleEric Back in the early 80's, I regularly used punch cards and ticker tape to load up the OS on a DEC PDP11 mini* computer, data was stored on rigid, plastic encased 12" disks.
*Mini equated to about the size of a double wardrobe, lol!
Also used the all steel Commodore 32 with calculator keys/build in tape deck/40 column screen.
Moved to a really hi-tech environment using 8" floppies, (Tandy computers), running Xenix multi user system, (Microsoft's version of Unix)
@Oyu_Fka @happydisciple my college had a 'minicomputer', think it was a PDP. Punch cards, though I know of them, was before my time.
Terence@UkeleleEric @Oyu_Fka @happydisciple
I attended University of Michigan for engineering in the mid 80’s. We had to learn FORTRAN on the mainframe. I recall a “mount tape” command that sent a computer lab tech off to find a numbered 9-track reel and mount it on the drive so that you could save or restore your work.
But my thoughts exactly. I still think of 3 1/2” floppies as “the new ones”.
@NM8A @UkeleleEric @happydisciple Yes...those 3.5" floppies blew my mind - 1.44Mb of read/write storage! Bleeding edge tech, lol!
@Oyu_Fka @UkeleleEric @happydisciple
I think I remember something in the press at the time to the effect “what will you ever do with a box of ten of these?”
I think I remember something in the press at the time to the effect “what will you ever do with a box of ten of these?”
@NM8A @UkeleleEric @happydisciple Tbh, I'd sooner have them than 'the cloud' being the only form of storage, lol!
Miro Collas@happydisciple I worked with punched cards. [looks around for his walker]
Anthony David@Miro_Collas @happydisciple @UkeleleEric
I loved the feel and rhythm when I was on a coding transcription roll. Such tactile machines.