I still remember the feeling it gave me as a kid to buy a box of 10 3.5" floppies. That was, like, fifteen whole megabytes of storage! Right in the palm of my hand!
Jeez, I'm old.
Jeez, I'm old.
But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I/O and used its tape punch (by holding the tape still) to edit snippets.
Of course earlier i used to play sonnets on an IBM 1620 (which was free for use after midnight) with sorted decks of Holleriths. To edit them i would use the adjacent keypunch (also holding to edit).
This was really something you could do? The back surface of the floppy was inaccessible, but was still usable despite not intentionally being so?
That reminds me of this, except real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc
However, it's for the best. The old must make way for the new.
It sounds so good! Like, aside from the fact that they're floppy drives, I actually objectively like the sound of this.