This is how we did it old school

[Ol Smoke]

 

[GraveDigger]

i actually used 5 1/4 floppys before those and if you want to go really old skool i remember having cassett tapes with games on them. it would take 30-45 minutes to load a game.

[yellow flash]

i remember breakin lot of those by rampling the metal back and forward

 

ps. i have no idea if rampling is a word

[Chameleon]

 

ps. i have no idea if rampling is a word

I don't either, but I think ima start using it haha

[ZXC.o]

This for real?

[oOShockWaveOo]

I still have one and  a P3 processor and a 64 ram bar loool I'm gonna hang them on my wall sometime  

[yellow flash]

i got 30 disc still in warehouse +  those bigger ones

[Drizzt DoUrden]

i have never heard of "floppy disk". is it new?

i am still using:

 

[Dddrgn]

I feel young now... Never had to actually use a floppy disk.

[Death_Reincarnated]

I still have my Atari 2600 in mint condition. Will wait another 20-30yrs and sell it for bucket loads!

 

Anyone remeber rar splitting files (i.e. music) onto mutliple floopy disks? I used to do that lol.

Edited May 24, 2013 by Death_Reincarnated

[Kostaja]

I used to play civilization 1 on my 386 a LOT. It had 1MB ram, 20mhz processor, 40M harddrive and something I could not believe was true - a modem! I think it was a 2400 baud modem and could download 1M/h. I used it to play ZombieMUD

 

Any bigger games took several disks and when one disk is 1.44M I had to be carefull what to install and when. I would immediately run out of space

[PizZaCh!pS!]

ohhh how many sweet memories 

 

remembering these: 

[docwarren]

How about ...

 

 

10 printscreen "Joe is a noob!"

20 goto 10

 

 

Basic programming for you younger ones.

[Masa_1964]

Oh yeah... remember when loading ms dos from 2 floppy IBM to load someting else and juggling dos floppy when needed some dos thing to 128/256kb memory And struggling with 1mb memory barrier with allkind memory extension progs . And testing poor windows 1.2 from one 720kb diskette Grappy "windows" with some "features with using mouse. some where -91 or -92.

 

Running BBS and connecting other BBS with modem in that time

 

Masa_1964

[rolf]

How about ...

 

 

10 printscreen "Joe is a noob!"

20 goto 10

 

 

Basic programming for you younger ones.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF 

 

 

Anyway, even today those 3.5" disks are large enough. Most classic games, W3D, Doom, TTDX, fitted on a few disks. Good old times indeed.

 

And even today all my results of my graduation project still fitted on a single 1.44MB disk.