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My ex-wife worked for Shugart Associates, the creator of the 5.25" mini-floppy, in Santa Clara, stuffing PC boards and later performing QA in assembly. They sold SA to Xerox in '77. IIRC, the Apple drive was a modified Shugart SA-400 but with a modified analog PC board on top as the brilliant Wozniak put the drive seek/read/write controls in the Apple O/S.
Wasn't aware there was a mini version of the 5.25" floppy. But I'm sure there's a few people reading this topic wondering what the hell is a floppy drive anyway, and how old are these guys! lol
 
When I bought my 40 meg HD for my 286, I remember being VERY elated...
Also, I learned how to program on a Commodore 64. I thought it was about the neatest thing. Now, my "programs" would be a big nothing...


Wow. A 40 MB hard drive way back when. I just checked Amazon and now you can get a 2 terabyte thumb drive for 39 bucks!
 
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Wasn't aware there was a mini version of the 5.25" floppy. But I'm sure there's a few people reading this topic wondering what the hell is a floppy drive anyway, and how old are these guys! lol
A 5.25" WAS a "mini" floppy, because the first floppy disk was an 8" !
 
A 5.25" WAS a "mini" floppy, because the first floppy disk was an 8" !
We use to cut the tab on the floppy's and use both sides. I still have an 8 inch 3M (IBM) floppy...
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This was my first computer:
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Still have it and about a dozen cartridges and a few controllers...works too...don't have the tape drive anymore...I replaced the bubble keyboard similar to the 800 model which was going for $800 back in the 80s, I paid $400 plus $100 later for the keyboard replacement. For me in my 20s back then, that was a lot of money.
I ended up with every Atari model after that all the way up to the ST model.

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My First data recorder :)
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Sorry for being :offtopic:
 
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When I lived in Silicon Valley / Santa Clara '74 to '04, me and a co-worker would drive up to Fremont in the East Bay and catch BART to San Franscisco where they'd have these computer shows/meets/swaps at Moscone Center in the early to mid 80's.....man, those were the days. SF wasn't so bad then, either. Hard to believe that is close to 40 years ago. :cool:
Back then in Dallas there was a bridge the HAM Radio guys would swap under, no joke, it turned into a Computer/Parts Swap over time. It got pretty big...
 
16 Megs! .. no one needs that much memory!!! pfffht .. 640k is the most anyone needs ..
Now I have 64Gigs (DDR5) of System Memory, thought of going to 128 too :)

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I ran a 3 phone line BBS on my Commodore 128 utilizing two 6 disc CD changers. If you know what this was about, it shows just how old you are.
In addition to the Apple II+ I also had a Commodore Vic20! :lol:
 
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I ran a 3 phone line BBS on my Commodore 128 utilizing two 6 disc CD changers. If you know what this was about, it shows just how old you are.
I ran PCBoard for several years myself...4 lines too, started out with Double-Sided 5 1/4 inch Floppy Drives, also had a six disc SCSI drive too, my last big drive/purchase was a 600Meg HDD which put the BBS in the top 5 BBS in our city back them.

Ran Hayes Modems:
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until I got an ADSL line and ran this USRobotics...
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Wow, the good Ole Days...think at one point I had around 250 users...crazy huh...
 
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I ran PCBoard for several years myself...4 lines too, started out with Double-Sided 5 1/4 inch Floppy Drives, also had a six disc SCSI drive too, my last big drive/purchase was a 600Meg HHD which put the BBS in the top 5 BBS in our city back them.

Ran Hayes Modems:
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until I got an ADSL line and ran this USRobotics...
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Wow, the good Ole Days...think at one point I had around 250 users...crazy huh...
Ah, yes,,,

Visions of "AT&FE1Q0V1X4&C1&D2" dancing in my head. :lmao:
 
It's funny, but out here I was stuck with dialup way past anyone else. Then I was able to hack my name into the Starband beta testing group. While it was a whole heck of a lot lot faster, our group played Unreal Tournament a LOT and because of the lag of Starband, I was reduced to hiding under stairwells and shooting at sounds of an "approaching" enemy who, in reality was already right on top of me. It was the only way for me to get kills. :p
 
Ah, yes,,,

Visions of "AT&FE1Q0V1X4&C1&D2" dancing in my head. :lmao:
Did you remember that string or had to look it up? :love:
 
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