From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 7/28/2025 7:55 PM, Felix wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Thanks for that. :) I'm saving some posts here for reference now, given how   
   abysmal my memory is. And speaking of things from bygone days.. My first PC   
   was the first generation Apple Mac, a second hand one. It had only a 3.5"   
   floppy for data storage    
   and loading programs into memory. The amount of disk swapping required to do   
   anything on it was insane! And a second disk drive cost an arm and a leg, over   
   $1000 in today's money. (but you most likely know these things)   
   >   
      
   We did these things too, just a slightly different era.   
      
   The one floppy machines would drive you nuts with "Insert disc #1",   
   "Insert disc #2", and after a while you're not even paying   
   attention to the prompts, you're just flipping flipping flipping   
   the things. It was pretty nutty. I think my machine had 128KB of RAM,   
   which is why the buffer size for floppy transfers was so low. That's   
   why there was so much flipping.   
      
   You did not look forward to "cloning" an 8 inch floppy diskette,   
   when it took that much media flipping.   
      
   We had a few machines with dual floppies, and those were considered   
   the "Cadillac" machines. You could copy from one drive to the other,   
   sit back and sip your coffee while it happened.   
      
   Yes, everything was expensive back then. Unreasonably so.   
      
      Paul   
      
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