FenderGuy1 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I have 5'25 inch floppies, but this is HUGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 it's about a ruler's hight This might just be the thickest person in the world. It is a very large floppy disc though isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I remember those. They were used in Trash80 Model 2's or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 I remember those. They were used in Trash80 Model 2's or something. They were used in the early 70s by older drives that were 12 inch, i want to own a ton of old computers, like the apple IIe and all that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I still have a box of brand new 8" Maxells somewhere. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I don't care what anyone says...size matters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 I still have a box of brand new 8" Maxells somewhere. Cheers... Bence Can i have some? i wanna frame them so i can have some 8" disks to look at :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Can i have some? i wanna frame them so i can have some 8" disks to look at :D I can't promise anything, I have to find them first. But if they are still in shape, I'd gladly send them to You. I'll come back to You with this after the weekend. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I don't care what anyone says...size matters! Yes it does. Your girlfriend lied to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Yes it does. Your girlfriend lied to you! Now that's funny!! Here is a pic of my first computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Hey Big Bill! Now that looks sharp! Oh wait...hot! Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Yep I remember using those back in school in 1980's and 1990's They were big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Yeah, I had a multi-station word processing system for a while that used 8" floppies. But it was in a transitional time and the PCs were handier for multiple jobs and the word processors went bye bye. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hell I wish I had a Commodore PET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 My daughter wants a pet guinea pig. When I was learning programming I used punched card, paper tape and all sorts of things but I can't say I've ever seen floppys that size. Big! P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 yep and if I remember those 8 inch disks well they held a whopping 79 Kilobytes. We used them in a Pr1me Mini computer system we had at work that took 2 mg memory boards that were 26 inches squares and cost 7 grand each (used). The main CPU's were about three inches in size and required huge heat sinks and a rather large dedicated flow of cold air from a dedicated attached a/c unit to keep them cool enough to run. I had no real complaints though I helped install it and turned it on in 1982 and then I was the one that shut it off in 2005 so it ran 23 years with a total of seven days out of service 3 of which were moving it to a different building so that a pretty good record for up time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dponzi Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I'm a COBOL programmer for a company that services financial institutions. When I started in this business in 1982, I started as a data control clerk, receiving data transmissions from different locations, the Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank, different clearing houses. We received them on machines called Mohawks. The data was written to reel-to-reel tapes, but we had to load, depending on who we were receiving the transmission from, different software, that was on HUGE floppy disks, I'm thinking they were like 12 inches. We used these machines into the early 90's. I haven't thought of that in years LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayG Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I was the customer support manager for a Wang computer dealer in NYC in the early 80's. Their word processing systems used those 8" floppies. Still have copies of several operating systems in my garage on them too. Took a few to my son's school for a show & tell day. Gave them to the kids after. Was fun. Regards--------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Never seen those 8" floppies in a home installation. Usually businesses who had HUGE mailing lists that were too much for the 5.25 floppies of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 8" black, 5.25" Orange and 3.5" Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 Well the one in the video is a 12 incher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Back when you had to format the disc before you could use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 Back when you had to format the disc before you could use it. 3.5 floppies still need to be formatted before use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 3.5 floppies still need to be formatted before use I remember preformatted floppies coming to market. After that you only had to format if you had an os that couldn't read fat16 partitions. Here's a trick for you fg. Get a 720k 3.5 in floppy disc. Make a hole in the corner where the hole would be on a 1.4mb disc. Stick it in a drive and format it. Your 720k disc just doubled in size! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 I remember preformatted floppies coming to market. After that you only had to format if you had an os that couldn't read fat16 partitions. Here's a trick for you fg. Get a 720k 3.5 in floppy disc. Make a hole in the corner where the hole would be on a 1.4mb disc. Stick it in a drive and format it. Your 720k disc just doubled in size! My 3.5s are 1.44 mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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