Comments on: The Evolution of Removable Storage

Comment on The Evolution of Removable Storage by: Moondog

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:17:42 +0000

I was lucky to have a floppy drive for my C-64. My neighbor had the Datasette (or whatever they called the cassette drive) and it took forever to load and save programs. It had a mechanical counter for keeping track of where each program was stored on the tape.

Comment on The Evolution of Removable Storage by: Alexander

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:35:48 +0000

The other day, my Java professor at my university brought in an 8 inch floppy to class. He also had a 5.25 inch, but I have stacks of those for my retro computers, so that was nothing new. He had them for his intro to computer science course… good times. I happen to have a 5.25″ floppy drive on my latest scratch-built gaming desktop.

Comment on The Evolution of Removable Storage by: arlandi

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:27:20 +0000

hmm… if i remember correctly, i saw a paper tape. maybe even a few of them long long time ago in my grandfather's work studio. he had a friend who was into gadget. and he borrowed, i'm guessing here, a sinclair computer with a 14 inch black and white tv. and that's how i got into becoming a computer dude/nerd/geek/whatever…