That was a "flippy" disc. We didn't touch them at the PC manufacturer where I worked. The problem was that flipping it required spinning the media in the opposite direction, and that roughed up the jacket's felt lining.
I had actually planned to do this in time for the fortieth anniversary, but then it rained for like 3 weeks and after that the deadline had passed.
I did mark up a template for said stripe, but then I'd need to go to the store and buy 7 more colors of paint that I'm going to use exactly once, and I got lazy.
Lets see, a 3.5" diskette held about 1.44 MB, a 5.25" floppy held up to 360 KB, a 8" floppy held maybe 80 KB. So extrapolating, the capacity of your disk is going to be approximately 1 tweet?
I get what you're saying, but the truth is all these formats eventually evolved to hold around 1 MB. It wasn't until the introduction of high density media that 5.25" floppies met the capacity of 8" DSDD floppies (1.2 MB). Incidentally those two formats had a lot in common (80 tracks, 500 kbps, 360 RPM).
Good, good… Obviously getting in the spirit of our upcoming Y2K show on the 21st.
That would be a 3.5" floppy, or maybe a Zip disk.
Please insert disk 1
Please insert disk 2
Please insert disk 1
Please insert disk 2
…
You had to flip disk 1 over before you got to disk 2 on older single-head drives (if the disk was double-sided).
That was a "flippy" disc. We didn't touch them at the PC manufacturer where I worked. The problem was that flipping it required spinning the media in the opposite direction, and that roughed up the jacket's felt lining.
some one in west Philly has been making these neat little collages with 8" floppies. I hope I meet them!
I immediately recognize the original IBM label as software that I have been trying to collect and archive for years.
Needs a hole punched on the right side near the top.
(actually, both sides, now that I think of it)
nah, he's just got both sides write-protected
Needs a large silver sticker?
You wouldn't download a night club.
It's a fair cop.
is that my copy of the garbage file?
I have CopyIIPC at home, it's able to dup any game, just hit me up with a blank and I'll drop Bard's Tale for ya
I always wondered about that ISA card, did anyone ever reverse engineer it and publish?
Is it going to get a stripe of colours encoding something down the hand side?
Color swatch cards and clear coat? The peel 'n' sticks are usually 9x12", cards 4x8".
Hoping to see a New Order stripe down the side at some point.
ObJoke: "They 3D-printed the Save symbol"
Lets see, a 3.5" diskette held about 1.44 MB, a 5.25" floppy held up to 360 KB, a 8" floppy held maybe 80 KB. So extrapolating, the capacity of your disk is going to be approximately 1 tweet?
I get what you're saying, but the truth is all these formats eventually evolved to hold around 1 MB. It wasn't until the introduction of high density media that 5.25" floppies met the capacity of 8" DSDD floppies (1.2 MB). Incidentally those two formats had a lot in common (80 tracks, 500 kbps, 360 RPM).
Ok, check my math here...
The available surface area of an 8"-style floppy would be around πR^2 - π(R/3)^2 (omitting the hole) which comes to 178.72".
My 86" floppy would be 20653.53", which is 115.56× more. So if an 8" held 568 KB per side, mine would hold 65.6 MB at the same density.
So, double sided, this floppy could hold approximately one hour of a webcast. Flipping it over would suck.
You don't need to know the area: just that it scales as linear dimension squared, so yours will hold (86/8)^2 as much, which is indeed 115.56 or so.