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Dual 5. 25 inch floppy drives
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State of the art ... c. 1985 Long before my PC introduction. (c.1997)
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an early catintosh???
My first programming job was in the summer of 1983 using an IBM with two 8" floppy drives and no hard drive.
A big step up from the punch cards used in school.
Brad Steele
One like that was my second computer. You put the "program" floppy in the left drive, and your data disk in the right one. They were called the "A" and "B" drives. This was before they came up with an internal hard disk drive, which is why forever after the hard disk became the "C" drive in all Microsoft devices.
I remember in the late 70's using punch cards, running a program from the university where I attended and sent to another university to be interpreted and waiting 12-24 hours for the results. We really thought we were something then !!!!
Tape drive CNC machines.
Been there, done that...
In the early n70s I worked as a machinist for Sperry - Univac refurbing old 50s-60s RCA punch drives and dot matrix printers ... the size of a kitchen stove.
One of the tape drives used rectangular magnetic cards about 4x12 inches long. Had to handle them with linen gloves !
Seen Warner lathes mess up on those drives and do anything they wanted ...like run the tools right into the chuck. I never trusted any of that .
That is an upgrade to my first business computer. It had two 8 inch floppies. The computer with a dot matrix printer only cost 15K and all it did was Supercalc.
I remember the very first computer I bought in 1989. Used with two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and maybe a 12" monochrome monitor - $2,100.00. My oh my, how things have changed.
But red fingernail polish is timeless.
Hah, that's fundamentally pretty close to this......