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<blockquote data-quote="MODAT7" data-source="post: 255561" data-attributes="member: 13649"><p>I still have a big box of floppies buried in the closet. No clue if they're any good. They'd probably still work if formated low density. Dad would bring home boxes of obsolete software that was being thrown out. I'd reformat and use them until the disks died... and I had my share of worn out failures.</p><p></p><p>When I was a little kid, our first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with the add on 32k RAM cartridge. It only took a minute to load a BASIC program off the cassette tape. It was also too early for color. I think dad got it on a clearance sale. We never really used it for anything as we didn't have much in the way of programs for it.</p><p></p><p>When dad started working for HP, he could check out a workstation over the weekend and let me play on it. That was a big deal for a little kid in the mid 1980s. The 3000 series workstations didn't do a lot but had some games. I played the original Adventure game ("xyzzy") but never got very far with it. The 9000/300 series in a 1/3 rollaround rack running unix were much closer to today's workstations. That's where I got my start in unix and some CAD experience. Plotters were fun to watch but were kinda slow for complex drawings. The ones for E sized paper could "plot" out something poster sized. Those were often used for architecture plans. Dad would bring home some of the smaller unix howto manuals and let me read through them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MODAT7, post: 255561, member: 13649"] I still have a big box of floppies buried in the closet. No clue if they're any good. They'd probably still work if formated low density. Dad would bring home boxes of obsolete software that was being thrown out. I'd reformat and use them until the disks died... and I had my share of worn out failures. When I was a little kid, our first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with the add on 32k RAM cartridge. It only took a minute to load a BASIC program off the cassette tape. It was also too early for color. I think dad got it on a clearance sale. We never really used it for anything as we didn't have much in the way of programs for it. When dad started working for HP, he could check out a workstation over the weekend and let me play on it. That was a big deal for a little kid in the mid 1980s. The 3000 series workstations didn't do a lot but had some games. I played the original Adventure game ("xyzzy") but never got very far with it. The 9000/300 series in a 1/3 rollaround rack running unix were much closer to today's workstations. That's where I got my start in unix and some CAD experience. Plotters were fun to watch but were kinda slow for complex drawings. The ones for E sized paper could "plot" out something poster sized. Those were often used for architecture plans. Dad would bring home some of the smaller unix howto manuals and let me read through them. [/QUOTE]
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