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Title: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: Black Diamond Vol on September 29, 2017, 03:46:47 EDT http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/29/commodore-64-mini-console-announced
Title: Re: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: PirateVOL on September 29, 2017, 07:17:18 EDT The comode 64 used 5.25" drives
perhaps the comode 32 used 8" floppies - I know the early HP machines did, as well as the pre Wordstar document writer used in the USAF Title: Re: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: Black Diamond Vol on September 29, 2017, 07:43:27 EDT The comode 64 used 5.25" drives perhaps the comode 32 used 8" floppies - I know the early HP machines did, as well as the pre Wordstar document writer used in the USAF Oh, ok. I distinctly remember it using the floppy discs that were actually floppy, before the 3.5" came along. The Vic 20 that came before it didn't even use discs- it stored data on cassette tapes. :biggrin: (http://computingvoyage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/vic-20-datasette.jpg) Title: Re: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: Black Diamond Vol on September 29, 2017, 07:48:11 EDT Oh, and don't forget your modem. Would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War? How about a nice game of Chess? :dance:
(http://www.coqdiddles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/acoustic-coupler.jpg) Title: Re: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: PirateVOL on September 29, 2017, 07:54:49 EDT Oh, ok. I distinctly remember it using the floppy discs that were actually floppy, before the 3.5" came along. The Vic 20 that came before it didn't even use discs- it stored data on cassette tapes. :biggrin: oh the 5.25s were floppy, even the "high density" ones ... :dunno:(http://computingvoyage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/vic-20-datasette.jpg) Title: Re: Will it come with the 8" floppy drive? Post by: BanditVol on September 29, 2017, 08:29:10 EDT Funny story...a colleague of mine went to the University of Illinois, and their computer lab at the time would give students a certain amount of floppy disks for free if it was for class. So the students that manned the IT services area were of Indian extraction, and they could not pronounce the "s" in "discs". Thus the question was "would you like a floppy dic today?"
Me: "So how did you keep a straight face?" Him: "Sometimes you just have to go ahead and laugh" :naughty: |