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June 21, 2016 at 9:41 pm

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 1

Looks about as floppy as the 3.5" disks (or Amstrad's 3" disks).

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Gary Varga (6/22/2016)
Looks about as floppy as the 3.5" disks (or Amstrad's 3" disks).

I remember them well. Weren't they (informally) referred to as stiffies, to much sniggering?

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mjh 45389 SSCertifiable Points: 5706 More actions · Answer 3

When I started in IT (1984) some of the clients were still on systems that used 8" floppy discs (these held call logging data). After I had been there some months I was asked to look at a problem a client had analysing their data. I ran the client and asked them if they could send me a copy of the data. Two days later I got a photocopy of the disc which just fitted on the paper. I thought it was a wind up until a colleague got a floppy folded in two to fit the envelope! :laugh: or :crying:

Manie SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4568 More actions · Answer 4

I must be getting old because if I think back of all the disks we used to have then I just think wow! How far have we come to the flash (usb) disks and external hard drives we are using today? Wow, wow!!!

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Michael Meierruth SSChampion Points: 10051 More actions · Answer 5

1984 (no, not the one you're thinking about).

IBM PC

DOS 1.0 (sic)

First 360KB floppy disc.

Then 1.2MB floppy disc.

Then a little later I was able to buy and install a big board with a 24MB disc on it. I was speechless.

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 6

I remember hearing about the first 10 MB hard drive and was amazed. It seemed like we could store the whole world on it.

I also remember when the first 1 MB of RAM was available. I wondered why we would ever need that much in memory at once; we've always worked with 640 KB.

My, how times have changed.

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akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 7

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June 22, 2016 at 6:22 am

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No so easy to hack sitting on the shelf.

RonKyle SSC-Dedicated Points: 31556 More actions · Answer 8

They use disks on Star Trek: The Original Series, so maybe disks will make a comeback at some point.;-)

Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125561 More actions · Answer 9

I'm sure that scribes in ancient Egypt saw papyrus as an innovation over clay tablets. However, today most of what we know about Egypt comes from the clay tablets as the papyrus disintegrated over time.

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RonKyle (6/22/2016)
They use disks on Star Trek: The Original Series, so maybe disks will make a comeback at some point.;-)

Gene Roddenberry invented the floppy disk, just like invented the smart phone.

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ThomasRushton (6/22/2016)
Gary Varga (6/22/2016)
Looks about as floppy as the 3.5" disks (or Amstrad's 3" disks).
I remember them well. Weren't they (informally) referred to as stiffies, to much sniggering?

Yeah stiffies and floppies. I remember all of that sniggering.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 12

How many floppies are required for the SQL Server 2016 install?

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SQLRNNR (7/13/2016)
How many floppies are required for the SQL Server 2016 install?

Fortunately nowhere near the number required to backup the database.

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Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125561 More actions · Answer 14

Guess how many 360 K floppies it would take to backup a 1 TB database. Also try to guess how much time it would take if you had one guy sitting at the PC writing and swapping one disk at a time. :w00t:

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