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Jimwillhavefun
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Quote by gav




Those were the days!


Yea. I don't miss them. I have seen technology come a long ways. Thank God! I don't think I could deal with disks and tapes anymore with the amount of data out there now.

Now if they could just make plug and play actually plug and play. LOL.

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Jimwillhavefun
Old Bag Of Bones
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Just incase we confused anyone about a floppy disk. Sprite

8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy disks
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the late 1970s into the 1990s, used at first as a primary data storage mechanism, and later mostly as a file transfer system as part of what became known as "sneakernet".

Work on a drive that led to the world's first floppy disk and disk drive began in 1967 at a San Jose (CA) IBM facility,[1] and introduced into the market in an 8-inch format in 1972. The more conveniently sized 5¼-inch disks were introduced in 1976, and became almost universal on dedicated word processing systems and personal computers.[2] This format was more slowly replaced by the 3½-inch format, first introduced in 1982. There was a significant period where both were popular.[3] A number of other variant sizes were introduced over time, with limited market success.

Floppy disks remained a popular medium for nearly 40 years, but their use was declining by the mid-1990s.[4][5] The introduction of high speed computer networking and new formats like the USB thumbdrive led to the eventual disappearance of the floppy disk as a standard feature of microcomputers, with a notable point in this conversion being the introduction of the floppy-less iMac in 1998. After 2000, floppy disks were increasingly rare and used primarily with older hardware and especially with legacy industrial computer equipment.

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Thank you Gav for your hard work.

As a 30 year veteran of the IT world and a system admin for several data-centers, I understand how things can go beyond our estimated time frame. Hope it wasn't too bad on you. Hopefully you kept all your hair unlike me. I pulled all mine out back in the days of floppy disk backups. LOL.


I'm not always sure I should advertise my IT credentials on here. On my other board, I ended up as their "gav". Though it's a simpler board that runs pretty much out of the box without having to interface with chat rooms and story site and suchlike.

But floppy disk backups. Wow, those were the days. I used to backup a minicomputer to open reel tapes in my first job (10 tapes, took about 5-6 hours). I'll bet you also remember installing Office from floppies. *shudder*
Jimwillhavefun
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I'm not always sure I should advertise my IT credentials on here. On my other board, I ended up as their "gav". Though it's a simpler board that runs pretty much out of the box without having to interface with chat rooms and story site and suchlike.

But floppy disk backups. Wow, those were the days. I used to backup a minicomputer to open reel tapes in my first job (10 tapes, took about 5-6 hours). I'll bet you also remember installing Office from floppies. *shudder*


LOL. I remember and still have a boxed version of Office 1 with 12 floppies. I still have a working copy of Dos 2 as well. Several 8086 computers. I am older than pic shows. LMAO.

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Buz
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Green_Man
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In the 1970s I was the operator of an IBM 340 mainframe. All "jobs" were ran using punched cards fed into a card reader. I would also create those cards if needed. We also used a number of tape drives and tapes as well as disks and disk drives. I moved on to IBM 350/360 and then the 4300 series mainframes. In the 1980s I received one of the first IBM PCs when I was a programmer/analyst.
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LOL. I remember and still have a boxed version of Office 1 with 12 floppies. I still have a working copy of Dos 2 as well. Several 8086 computers. I am older than pic shows. LMAO.


Yep, you're a bit older than me in IT terms. The guys who work for me were all born 1985 or later (the youngest was born after I started in the workforce) so CD and even DVD was already the norm by the time they started working. They must think I'm a cranky old fart when I talk about this stuff.
simplyjohn
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In the 1970s I was the operator of an IBM 340 mainframe. All "jobs" were ran using punched cards fed into a card reader. I would also create those cards if needed. We also used a number of tape drives and tapes as well as disks and disk drives. I moved on to IBM 350/360 and then the 4300 series mainframes. In the 1980s I received one of the first IBM PCs when I was a programmer/analyst.


ICL 1900/2900 series and DEC VAX 750/780/785, Microvax I/II and PDP 11 series when I first started. Backups to magnetic tape... 800/1600/3250 bpi. The 1900 had a drum for fast virtual memory access lol.

Writing that makes me feel so old.
Jimwillhavefun
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Quote by Green_Man
In the 1970s I was the operator of an IBM 340 mainframe. All "jobs" were ran using punched cards fed into a card reader. I would also create those cards if needed. We also used a number of tape drives and tapes as well as disks and disk drives. I moved on to IBM 350/360 and then the 4300 series mainframes. In the 1980s I received one of the first IBM PCs when I was a programmer/analyst.


I remember those. I used them in the Navy. I started in the business back in the 70's in the Navy and when I came out I was put on a AS400 if you know what that was.

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Jimwillhavefun
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ICL 1900/2900 series and DEC VAX 750/780/785, Microvax I/II and PDP 11 series when I first started. Backups to magnetic tape... 800/1600/3250 bpi. The 1900 had a drum for fast virtual memory access lol.

Writing that makes me feel so old.



I know what you mean about feeling old. I still have a box of Dec software somewhere. I have forgotten more than most of these young System Admins will ever know.

Remember to check out a few of my stories. You can find them here.

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PhilU
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Those were the days!




Oh, and thanks Gav for getting things back and up and working (more or less) on schedule smile