I worked on Wang and the 8inchers hehe. The thing I loved about the 3.5 floppies is the drives popped the disks out automagically versus the the 5.25 that you had to carefully slip in and out hehe. They are the storage cuneiform of PCs
I always thought that was weird too. LOL! And I'll never forget my dad asking to look at my first TI30 calculator. He handed it back to me and said, "That same computing capacity used to take up an entire room." Times have changed!
I worked on Wang and the 8inchers hehe. The thing I loved about the 3.5 floppies is the drives popped the disks out automagically versus the the 5.25 that you had to carefully slip in and out hehe. They are the storage cuneiform of PCs
Let me get this rock-straight: you’re saying that the smaller they got, the harder they got AND the more useful they got?
I don’t know if I got to play with the Wang back in the day.
Of course you played with the Wang back in the day; everyone did.
I always thought that was weird too. LOL! And I'll never forget my dad asking to look at my first TI30 calculator. He handed it back to me and said, "That same computing capacity used to take up an entire room." Times have changed!
I think the TI30 would fit on a microbe or something! Amazing to see.
I love how this managed to be both a history lesson and a comedy routine about terrible tech naming decisions.
Don't copy that floppy! lol
Maaaaaybe physicists are worse at naming things, but it’s close.