To: gunsequalfreedom
Floppies never were 10 megabytes.
They were 1.44 meg.
To: Dan(9698)
“Floppies never were 10 megabytes.
They were 1.44 meg.”
Excuse me, but I happen to recall asking, “What would I ever write that could possibly fill a 256K disc?”
24 posted on
01/14/2013 7:46:21 PM PST by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Dan(9698)
They were 1.44 meg.The were also 360KB, 720KB, and 1.2MB...
28 posted on
01/14/2013 8:13:20 PM PST by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Dan(9698)
You are so correct, floppies were 1.44 meg, at least the later advanced ones. But those were the hard plastic case ones, right? I'm thinking of the larger and floppy floppies. What were they, 500k. I thinking the ones that worked with the IBM 486.
These ones...
31 posted on
01/14/2013 8:56:14 PM PST by
gunsequalfreedom
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