There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.
holy jesus, I thought I'd banished the actual floppy disk to the back of my mind, particularly the DS ones.
You know what, it's easy to rag on the devs at the time, but they worked with what they had. Good on them.
Yeah, that’s around where I came in. Although I did have an old 386 with two 5.25” drives and no hard drive.
A 386 with no hard drive was crazy even then. My first was an 8088 (though technically a NEC v20) with a 5.25" and a 20 MB hard drive
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There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.
holy jesus, I thought I'd banished the actual floppy disk to the back of my mind, particularly the DS ones.
You know what, it's easy to rag on the devs at the time, but they worked with what they had. Good on them.
Yeah, that’s around where I came in. Although I did have an old 386 with two 5.25” drives and no hard drive.
A 386 with no hard drive was crazy even then. My first was an 8088 (though technically a NEC v20) with a 5.25" and a 20 MB hard drive