Those MSS storage units were cool for the day - those that our company had worked like a charm.
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That would be the IBM3420 tape drive. I remember those.... I also remember the IBM MSS storage unit - bullet like tape cartridges...
I¡¯d like to say happy days, but...?
Tim
On 30 Jun 2020, at 20:19, Kevin Walker <sage@...> wrote:
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Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye
hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay=
[email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games.
Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games.
A great computer game company now sadly gone
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First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"?
And the last.
I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯.
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I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes.
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And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there.
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Doug
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8", 5.25" or 3".
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On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote:
Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks.
On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote:
12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean.
And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet.
On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via
<don.avis@...> wrote:
If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at?
sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There
has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
