The end of the floppy disk?

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The end of the floppy disk?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8651750.stm

I remember having MS Office on thirty-two of them, and PC Dos on seven of them.
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El Viejo wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8651750.stm

I remember having MS Office on thirty-two of them, and PC Dos on seven of them.
And BBC Elite on a 5 1/4" diskette!
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ah, the days when floppy disks WERE floppy.
i had Elite on cassette :-/
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El Viejo wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8651750.stm

I remember having MS Office on thirty-two of them, and PC Dos on seven of them.
Yeh, 32 Disk install of Office - and it often fell over on Disk 24... :twisted:
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At around the same time certain Atari ST software got all excited and told you "I have found lots of extra memory!" if started on the Mega ST 4 (which means 4MB of RAM). :D
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Commander McLane wrote:
At around the same time certain Atari ST software got all excited and told you "I have found lots of extra memory!" if started on the Mega ST 4 (which means 4MB of RAM). :D
Woo! Can't remember what happened with the same software running on my Atari Falcon030 after I got it to the standard max of 14mb!* :wink:

* 16mb but 2mb wasn't addressable!
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£4,500 though! :shock: <Faints>
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