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Rich Z said:
LOL!! How many of you have actually seen 8 inch floppy disks? I believe I've got a couple boxes of them around here somewhere....
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I remember those!

We were having a problem with a VCR recorder at work the other day. (One room has a VCR, and the other got a DVD recorder when its VCR died). So it wasn't recording swallow studies, and everything was set appropriately on the x-ray equipment and the VCR. Finally I took out the tape and the little tab that prevents overwriting had been broken out. NO ONE was old enough to even know that there was such a thing. Or how to bypass it!
 
Last time I saw an 8 inch floppy was in a Viagra commercial... :eek:

Matthew Broderick uses an 8" IMSAI floppy drive in Wargames, but I'm not sure I've seen one anywhere else.
 
4th grade, 1992, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base at the DOD on-base school's computer lab -- that was the last time I used an 8 inch floppy. The computer lab had Apple and Apple II computers. Our school still used 8mm film projectors. I wouldn't see 3.5in disks and album-sized laserdiscs until 5th grade, in another state, town, and air force base.
 
Nythain said:
Can't say I've had the pleasure of ever seeing an 8 inch. Before 5 1/4, I was using tape, and then the evolution to 3.5. Sort of mind blowing how fast I went from tape to no physical media at all. My current rig doesn't have a disc drive at all anymore (aside from the hdd's of course).
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Heck, the first computer I ever had did backups to audio tape at 300 baud... :crazy01:

I remember an online service that I used to subscribe to via modem that I could read the text scrolling down the screen in real time.
 
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