I’m struggling to remember too. I know there was the sticker on the inside ring to determine if it was single or double sided, or was it a second notch on the case?
3 1/2s were 750kb or 1.44mb
Have to check with mum. She used to work for Verbatim.
Is that what she actually said?
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Electric hot water jugs. They were huge porcelain contraptions, usually a pale yellow colour, with a big matte black plastic flip top. Inside were two pieces of wire, at the bottom of which was a wire heating element. When boiling water, the heating element had to be submerged in the water or else it would burn out.
By Hecla, they were fun, not!
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These were definitely floppy. The 3.5" ones were decidedly stiffer. And I only recall them as 1.44Mb.
I met a guy from Eindhoven who worked for Philips back in the early oughties, who was telling me they were working on 100Gb extensions to Blu-Ray. Never made it to market AFAIK. He was a nuclear physicist.
we do trivia on Friday afternoons at work, and Kimba the White Lion was mentioned. Probably two thirds of the people there hadn’t heard of him.
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Shameful! How could you ever forget the Kimba The White Lion theme song?
There’s a tiny little town called Kimba in South Australia that you pass through if you’re heading across the Nullarbor (there’s no other reason to go there) and you can guarantee that the Kimba song will be stuck in your head for hundreds of kilometres afterwards.
They do have a giant galah, so that’s something I guess.
https://i.imgur.com/rwT2nWI.jpg
EDIT: Kimba is also where Darryl and Shane Wakelin lived when they were kids. I don’t know if there’s any connection with the giant galah.
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When its Friday night and you look forward to actually watching better homes and gardens.
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Apparently there were four sizes with 1.44mb being the most common.
- SS – Single Sided – 280 KB storage capacity
- DD – Double Density – 720 KB
- HD – High Density – 1.44 MB
- ED – Extended Density – 2.88 MB
From memory your standard or garden variety FDD couldn’t read the bigger ones - and the ones below 720kb stopped being sold at some point.
For what seemed like about 3 weeks (probably a few years) there were Zip disks and super floppy discs (120MB??). Minidisc, laserdisc, SACD…
Thats messed up right there
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When people ask you if you still work, ■■■■ me dead
Better homes than yours
You could recite each characters real life name at the beginning of A Country Practice.
Does anyone remember (sans googling) “Tobor, the Eighth Man”? Obscure Japanese 1960s what would now be called anime, and well ahead of its time.
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Does anyone remember a TAB ad from the 90s where a couple were in a French restaurant and the guy ordered a steak and ‘poison’ for the wife?
Or is it just me?
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No, but I remember this promotion from the 80s
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And from my dim memory, when those 5 1/4 " would have trouble loading … a quick rub under the jumper/polo/windcheater worked wonders. The drive magically read and reloaded.
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Nothing changes the fact it’s still painful getting out of bed to do something you don’t want to do.