Tarimoor Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Hello! My name is Joanne, and yes, I do remember booting up a pc with floppy disks (and it did have a 'k' in it back then), and good old DOS, although I wouldn't claim to understand much about them!! I have a very hectic life, my own artwork business (hence the avatar) as well as looking after my two chocolate Labradors, Indie and Tau. Funnily enough I was pointed in this direction via a pet forum :) Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to contribute much in the way of expertise, I'm here to pick brains more than anything. Quote
Guest Wolfeymole Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Hi Joanne Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help :) Floppy disks? Happy days. Give my regards to Ony and her Mum. Quote
KenB Posted July 14, 2009 Posted July 14, 2009 Hi Joanne, I was having a delve through my cupboard over the weekend and came across a stock of floppies. I found a Win 98 bootup floppy and a copy of Win 95 - this was on CD ( progress :) ) I still have the 15 floppies needed to install one of the original Arts and Letters software. I go back a little bit further .... In my loft I have a ZX Spectrum This has a massive memory - 48K RAM........the cheaper version had a 16K memory. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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mardalf Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 Ah now which floppies are you thinking of, Joanne? I remember the really floppy 5.25 inch ones. Programs like WordPerfect (still unbeaten by Word IMHO) came on 8 disks or more! Then the unfloppy floppy 3.5 inch ones - held more, but the programs got bigger. Those were the days. Often took hours to install a program taking disks in and out. Oh - and I still spell disk with a K. Mardalf :cool2: Quote
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