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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
LOL..........that would be 5" floppies there sir.............
I've decided to leave the dinosaur stage after I realized that this machine is nearly five years old. It's similar to yours and the larger programs (Adobe acrobat reader and Chrome) have really slowed it down.
I'm tired of waiting 15 seconds to open Adobe............it's time for more speed.
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Guess that makes me even more ancient that you. 8" floppies preceded 5" ones.
My first Engineer had a Viadek Word Processor ( by Exxon). This was a massive "U" shaped desk which housed the word processor--keyboard, display, printer ans 8" floppy drives-- 2 of them. Must have taken 5' X 8' of floor space. It was hardware-based, and so, obsolete the moment it was made. It lasted only a few years before being replaced with PC word processors.
The odd thing was that the 8" discs held less data than the 5", and the 5" held less data than the 3 1/4" ones.