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    Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

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    Image of Andre Oceans Andre Oceans
    05/23/09

    In reply to Very old, 2004 - 3.5" Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space
    Nice to remember macs used to be FUGLY HORRIBLE LOOKING COMPUTERS with CRT Screen, Useless Mouse, Floppy Drive, No Software Support, its amazing apple survived the 90's


    long live the Apple

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/23/09

    @Andre Oceans: Nice to remember that computers used to load programs off of cassette tape, the floppy drive was 2.5' long 6" high, and 8" wide. It weighed about as much as a boat anchor.


    And, they didn't have color graphics. They had green monochrome graphics.


    Even older ones loaded programs from switches, punch cards, and reel to reel tape. They had overly large typewriters to control them instead of screens.


    Please don't talk to me about computers in the 90's, let alone Macs, being fugly.

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    Image of psychoboyjack psychoboyjack
    05/23/09

    In reply to Very old, 2004 - 3.5" Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space
    That is win.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/23/09

    @psychoboyjack: you must set the bar pretty darn low
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/23/09

    In reply to Very old, 2004 - 3.5" Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space
    There was a point way, way back in college where, for a Mac-based graphics class I was taking, all of us students would keep, on a single floppy, not only all of our project files but also an entire, bootable Mac OS (IIRC, OS 5) AND all necessary applications. That way when we sat down to a random computer in the classroom, we could reboot it--from that single floppy!--into our own complete system.


    When I think how many MacPaint files I could have stored on THIS sweet little baby...!


    :)

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05/10/09

    In reply to Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
    Ooh a pop-up book. That's even better than the 3-D Enterprise...
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    Image of aaj111 aaj111
    05/09/09

    In reply to Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
    Don't copy that floppy.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    @aaj111: that brings back memories. if only we had such catchy phrases now piracy would be less rampant.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    05/09/09

    In reply to Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
    They could have called it anything they wanted- soft disk, flex disk, even removable disk. Instead they chose floppy.

    Freaky engineers.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    @Who wants chowdah??: well, if you remember floppies were pretty floppy. also, if memory serves there used to be an 8" and my guess those were pretty darn floppy as well. the 3.5" sadly not so much. and of course their counterpart the hard disk. tee he he
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    In reply to Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
    this book would be much smaller today.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/09/09

    In reply to Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
    OMG! That SO takes me back to my childhood, even down to that very message--"I'm ready to work-and play-with you." That's exactly how my Daddy would say it to me, and so very often. He'd show me the floppy and then how it would pop-up--Wow!-- and then he'd teach me how to insert it properly. Gosh, the memories!


    * wipes a tear *


    Wish we'd had this book, though.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    @bosskev: i am sad for you, but i just can't stop freakin laughin.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    @bosskev: the qeustions remains, though: what size was the floppy?
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    Image of Arvedui Arvedui
    05/09/09

    @867-5309_Nick: I bet it was 3.5".
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    Image of Harrison is playing FFVIII Harrison is playing FFVIII
    05/09/09

    @Arvedui: I was thinking 5 1/4"
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/09/09

    @Harrison: Why don't Facebookers need approval?: well, boss ain't no spring chicken and we're talking about his pops so . . . i might a venture a guess into the older 8"
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