Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri May 09 2025 10:16:46

  Re: Re: floppy disks
  By: Boraxman to mary4 on Fri May 09 2025 08:32 am

 Bo> I just realised in another message I said I preferred 3.5".  Maybe I don't
 Bo> know, but the 1.2M were kind of "exotic" as I rarely actually saw them
 Bo> used.  I only obtained the drives and disks in the early 2000s!  Before
 Bo> then I hadn't really used them.  In the 90's they were this format which
 Bo> existed, but didn't get to see.  Hence the mystery.

My first PC was a second-hand 286 PC, which I got in 1992 from my dad. For floppy disks, it initially only had a 5.25" floppy drive, so I was using a lot of the 1.2MB 5.25" floppy disks for a little while. A couple years later, I was able to get a 3.5" floppy disk drive for my PC, and at the time I thought that was a pretty cool upgrade.

Nightfox
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