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V8MoneyPit:
I once was the proud owner of an Amstad with 2, yes 2!, 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive at all!!



--- Quote from: "Rich_P" ---:lol: You really don't want to see some of the equipment we're using, Liam.  :wink: For example, have you ever seen let alone used a 512k (yes, Kilobyte!) hard drive that's twice the height and the same length of a CD/DVD drive?
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When I started at Lotus, the CAD system used floor standing hard drives. They were something like 512k if I remember correctly and they stood to the underside of the desk  :shock: In fact, after they became obsolete I remember 2 of them actually being used to hold up a desk top  :lol:

And the OS was Pascal.... anyone remember that?

When we upgraded to a single desk top server of 1Mb it was amazing!! And this was running 9 workstations  :shock: And we moved to Unix. An excellent OS. Light, fast and frill free. None of your over rated, over complicated, processor killing MS products to be seen.

discomummy:
Hi

that model of the starship enterprise - nearly fell off chair at that one - must try that........now where can i buy some floppies

regards

ela

AbyssDJ:

--- Quote from: "V8MoneyPit" ---I once was the proud owner of an Amstad with 2, yes 2!, 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive at all!!
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i had 3 BBC micro B's ;) had two external floppy drives for them too :P even had the original "elite" to play on them :D

Manicminer:

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And the OS was Pascal.... anyone remember that?


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I used to do some programming in the mid/late 1980's.

bezzabsa:
used to work on a DEC PDP11/44 used to fill a small room...and that was 1982 :O

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