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My first computer had that... My uncle gave it to us at the time that cds were already around. It didn't have a mouse either... and no MS Word or related. We were kinda poor. LOL
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Had an Amstrad 1640 with dual 5" floppy's (A and B drives). Had to load the boot system first before any application
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Very well, I am just so glad that things have improved with time.
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yes i do i used them in school.:)
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I was not of that era
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Very well. I used a Toshiba owned by the State to travel around the State and to National Conferences to promote the NRSS (Nebraska Resource and Referral System) which was built on the State mainframe and maintained by my staff. I was the Coordinator of the activities and system and dialed in by modem to live demonstrate the system (RLINK software). At the same time I was the purchasing agent for our neighborhood association to purchase a PC with out a hard drive for minutes, etc.
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I had an Atari 400, a TRS-80, a Commodore 64, and a Mattel Aquarius computer, all in the late '70's and early '80's, so pretty well, I guess;)
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Considering I have been in the computer business for 31 years, I remember IBM mainframes that had huge removable disks. Good times :-)
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I remember having to store programs on cassettes.
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I remember them very well. I still have my much-thumbed DOS For Dummies.
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Very well. I find it odd that many computers had their OS in firmware back then and could function without drives of any sort with no moving parts. I loaded programs (mostly games) into my Vic-20 and C-64. Now we have Linux distros designed to run from a USB stick... with no moving parts. This whole idea of putting an OS (or other programs) onto an unreliable mechanical device with FAR slower access times was, in my mind, an evolutionary step backwards.
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I remember them from the 3rd -5th grade, we used them in school to play learning games on, and sometimes reg. games in free time.
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remember them, I still use one. I plug the floppy into the tower, not directly into the computer though!
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In college I had one "microcomputer" course where the floppies were 8.5 or 9" in diameter... I wish I'd saved one.
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