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Re: Disk notcher
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Peter Watson wrote:
"sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-klk-this> wrote in message
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You're all wimps. When I was a kid, I was sooo poor (after shelling out
$35-$40
for a box of 10 SSDD disks) that I had to use my TEETH to nibble that
notch...
and that was after I'd walked 10 miles to the 'local' ComputerLand, in the
snow, uphill both ways, through the ghetto.
Walk? Luxury! I had to crawl for 20 miles, across broken glass, just to get
a single second-hand floppy disk that I could reuse.
Did the Apple II drive come with a blank floppy?
I never had an Apple till well after it had first come out, so I wouldn't
know. But when I got my first floppy drive, for a Radio Shack Color
Computer, I was mildly annoyed that it didn't come with a blank floppy.
I paid about $500 for the drive and the controller in 1984, and I couldn't
use it until I spent some more money. And unlike "batteries not
included", there isn't even the excuse that the floppy disk would
deteriorate and ruin the drive.
I was certainly glad I could buy floppies in a small pack, I guess it
was a 2pack. I wasn't feeling like spending much more money that
week. I still have the bill, somewhere, for my first 10pack of floppies,
bought sometime later in 1984, and it did reach the fifty dollar mark
here in Canada. Either the generic floppies weren't around yet, or I
wasn't yet willing to trust them.
I got a 4gig USB flash drive the other day, and paid ten dollars for it.
Nearly an infinitely more storage capicity than that box of ten floppy
disks.
Michael