On Jun 18, 21:25, Larry Anderson wrote:
> Yeah,
> disks back then were about $5.00 (US) a shot [not to be confused with
> ammunition in previous off topics, though I can wield a mean VIC-20] for
the
> cheap SS/SD ones.
I recall being one of the first at the college I worked at then, to own
floppies. I remember the price was a few pounds each around 1980, and one
local supplier sold them to students one at a time. Unfortunately (for the
dealer) not all the staff realised the price was per floppy, not per
box-of-10, and a few of us reaped the benefit of that. I still use some of
those disks in an Apple ][.
> New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system)
did
> you guys carry around to start out with?
Most of my early computing was done on machines that used punched cards or
paper tape, but I didn't often get to keep the cards, and sadly I have no
cards or paper tape now. The first thing I carried about regularly was
cassette tape (CUTS format).
BTW, DECtape is 3/4" not 1" as Jim suggested (slip of the pen?). I still
have some, but alas no deck to read it on.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 20 1998 - 03:49:15 BST