Posted by doc on 12/23/08 11:27

u know thinking back, i was sooooooo excited when the 3 1/2" floppies came
out not only because they held 1.44mb BUT more importantly i could pack 'em
in my shirt pocket and that made 'em heaven on earth :o) now one pic of my
grandchildren is larger than that :o)

doc

"TonyP" <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
>
>> wow! a 5 mb drive. that is soooooo cooooool :o) i rememember those
>> big ole floppys that i used in my trs80 (that's the way i went, my son
>> went the c64 route) and to think that that 5 1/4" could hold a whopping
>> 160kb and when i got converted to dual sided it was 320kb. eGADS! i now
>> have pictures that wouldn't fit on the dual sided one :o)
>
> Yes, 5megs when the 5.25" floppies held like 170k. The cost for the 9060
> (which wasn't new) was $450.
>

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