17 Jul
2018
17 Jul
'18
3:41 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 03:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 8", notch is write protect; no notch is write enabled.
on 5.25", notch is write enabled; no notch is write protected.
I think that that justifies calling the 8" a "write protect notch", and
calling the 5.25" a "write enable notch".
I was not aware of that.
Thank you, once again, ClassicCmp, for making me feel relatively young.
I think I have seen live working systems with 8" floppies about twice
in my entire working life, both in the late 1980s. I have never used a
system with them, not even once.
I'm 50 and my first memory of any kind is the first moon landing.
Last night, in a pub quiz, which to the organizers' amazement we won
-- we were the "old people" team (3 ? ~50, 1 ? ~35), when one of the
questions was about "the early days of the old-time internet, if
you're old and you've been online forever."
It was about Myspace.
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