Floppy disks at 2021?!

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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.
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 2:58 AM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Omer Zak said on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:32:56 +0200
>
> >My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5"
> >diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new.
> >No 5.25" diskettes.
> >No 8" diskettes.
>
> LOL, my first job in the computer industry was as a receptionist at one
> of those early computer stores that catered to business. CPM, hard
> disk, Wordstar, spreadsheet and Dbase. And 8 inch floppies.
>
> This was February or March of 1984, and we were still emerging from the
> 1982-83 recession, so in spite of the fact that in school I wrote a
> Cobol program that would take, as input, another Cobol program, and
> output a function decomposition diagram of the input, complete with
> branches, loops and procedure calls, nobody would hire me. So I became a
> receptionist in order to get a "computer job".
>
> Two months later I had a real job as a Pascal programmer (remember, bad
> economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB Winchester
> removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial terminals. I
> never saw an 8 inch floppy again.
>
> SteveT
>
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