Sorting through some of my "IT junk" Came across this!

 

I'm sure I had some punched tape somewhere

 

 

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Nostalgia

 

Aint what it used to be 

I have a bunch of Atari ST and Amiga floppies at home

Floppy Disc, you were lucky. We had to key in the instructions on toggle switches.

 

I had a job at 19, doing salaries for a govt dept and they had a data processing center above the main train station which served the entire national government. They used punch cards in long racks. My mate had a job with a state insurance company which mainly involved changing tape reels. I learned to code a few yerars later on an IBM 5100 which had a mini cassette tape for storage.

 

My first computer was an XT with 2 floppy drives (both sizes) and a 32 Mb Seagate hdd.

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by ozimoron

Remember the old BASF cassette tapes?

Recently I heard a comment: Someone 3D printed a save-icon.

 

 

 

8 hours ago, RayWright said:

Floppy Disc, you were lucky. We had to key in the instructions on toggle switches.

 

 

Some miss it:

 

Retro Computing Enthusiast Tries Restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 Minicomputer

 

 

 

My first, a Geniac when I was 6 years old:

 

 

 

Thanks, Dad.

 

How about this:

My First ATM card

8 minutes ago, Negita43 said:

How about this:

My First ATM card

 

Yep I seem to remember those.

9 minutes ago, Negita43 said:

How about this:

My First ATM card

 

 

 

Yes, and you would receive 10 crisp £1 notes in a plastic clip.

Those two floppy discs are why your modern main drive now starts at C:  because those two were the A: and B: drives.