Subj : floppy disks are cool!
To   : Ben Collver
From : Blue White
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 08:35:17

 > I've had fun working on challenges to fit lots of functionality onto a
 > single floppy.  I've done a few projects of my own, and i remember
 > others:
 
I had a older Sharp laptop that "ate" hard disks.  After a couple, I quit
buying them.  I would boot it from a DOS floppy that would install a RAM
disk as C:, then ask for a B: drive (i.e. another floppy) that would
contain ZIP files on it.  It would unzip whatever was on that floppy to
the RAM drive, then ask for A: to finish the AUTOEXEC.BAT.

I used to use this machine for a couple of things:

-- When traveling, I could load it with a comm program and access my BBS
and the Internet via dial up
-- I would also sometimes have it load MicroFocus COBOL and SPF/2 so I
could work on and compile programs.

I eventually took the machine apart to see if I could put a Raspberry Pi
into it.  I wish I had not done that.  ;)


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