<div dir="ltr">Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8" diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes (from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more. My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.<div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:rtl"><div style="direction:rtl">אורי</div><div style="direction:rtl"><a href="mailto:uri@speedy.net" target="_blank">uri@speedy.net</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 2:58 AM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Omer Zak said on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:32:56 +0200<br>
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>My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5"<br>
>diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new.<br>
>No 5.25" diskettes.<br>
>No 8" diskettes.<br>
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LOL, my first job in the computer industry was as a receptionist at one<br>
of those early computer stores that catered to business. CPM, hard<br>
disk, Wordstar, spreadsheet and Dbase. And 8 inch floppies.<br>
<br>
This was February or March of 1984, and we were still emerging from the<br>
1982-83 recession, so in spite of the fact that in school I wrote a<br>
Cobol program that would take, as input, another Cobol program, and<br>
output a function decomposition diagram of the input, complete with<br>
branches, loops and procedure calls, nobody would hire me. So I became a<br>
receptionist in order to get a "computer job".<br>
<br>
Two months later I had a real job as a Pascal programmer (remember, bad<br>
economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB Winchester<br>
removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial terminals. I<br>
never saw an 8 inch floppy again.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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