http://www.thesoapboxers.com/ask-kosmo/ A web magazine that covers a world of topics every week. New articles published daily. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:14:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thesoapboxers.com/ask-kosmo/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 Martin Kelly Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:23:50 +0000 http://www.thesoapboxers.com/?p=2732#comment-2116 Cosmo, you are showing your youth. Before teh 3.25" hard floppys that were created for the Mac and later adapted to PCs, there was a 5.25" floppy that was truely floppy. The same disc material that is inside the smaller package was shrouded in a vinyl cover like an envelope with slots on the front and back. Before that, there was an 8" version for the PET computers (4" green on black screen with the disc slot beside the screen. You could erease your disc by removeing it with the dispay on from the magnetic fields). They were called floppys because they were thin and flexable. All other disc drives were made with a ceramic core, making them stiff and breakable. To show how old I am, before those discs, programs and data were stored on 1" magenetic tapes, before that on 2" paper tapes. You will have to go to a museum to see these delightful objects. Punch cards were also used. I think I still have some from college in my memories box :-) Cosmo, you are showing your youth. Before teh 3.25″ hard floppys that were created for the Mac and later adapted to PCs, there was a 5.25″ floppy that was truely floppy. The same disc material that is inside the smaller package was shrouded in a vinyl cover like an envelope with slots on the front and back. Before that, there was an 8″ version for the PET computers (4″ green on black screen with the disc slot beside the screen. You could erease your disc by removeing it with the dispay on from the magnetic fields). They were called floppys because they were thin and flexable. All other disc drives were made with a ceramic core, making them stiff and breakable. To show how old I am, before those discs, programs and data were stored on 1″ magenetic tapes, before that on 2″ paper tapes. You will have to go to a museum to see these delightful objects. Punch cards were also used. I think I still have some from college in my memories box
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