on 14-05-2024 18:11
on 14-05-2024 18:11
on 14-05-2024 18:35
I've got some 51/4 360k ones from my BBC computer, and hundreds of 3.5 inch with Pascal routines on.
14-05-2024 19:13 - edited 14-05-2024 19:15
14-05-2024 19:13 - edited 14-05-2024 19:15
The 3.5" is still the medium of necessity in the avionics world - the humble Boeing 747 designed the 400-series replacement for the flight engineer around 3 redundant systems, at the heart of each sits the 3.5" floppy drive..
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363122/boeing-747s-floppy-disc-updates-critical-software
I had boxes of 8" floppies, and the dual-sided 12" Phillips video disc was a thing for teaching in the late 80s.
on 15-05-2024 18:37
on 15-05-2024 18:37
I still have a working external Iomega "Zip" drive with 100Mb and 250Mb discs from circa 2000 ! 👍