The official 5.25" disk sleeve archive
July 2, 2002 2:39 PM Subscribe
The official 5.25" disk sleeve archive those elephant sleeves sure bring back memories .....
have i got a bunch of these at home? i have. thanks for the post, rotifer. zillions of old apple ][ games with their own sleeves; ultima; SSI; those were the days.
posted by moz at 2:52 PM on July 2, 2002
posted by moz at 2:52 PM on July 2, 2002
Forget about 5.25", bring back the Eight Inch Floppy! Now there was a format you could make a statement with!
posted by anser at 4:56 PM on July 2, 2002
posted by anser at 4:56 PM on July 2, 2002
Funny, I bought diskettes with the money my parents gave me for ice cream sandwiches....
Remember cutting holes in the corner of your one-sided floppies to make them double-sided? Remember how it didn't work half the time? Remember when Apple tried to popularize the name "twiggy" for the 3.5" diskette? (Or was it something even less likely?) Remember when people thought that "hard disk" was a 3.5" because, well, the other kind were more floppy? Remember needing to extricate floppies from between two Apple II or TRS-80 disk drives (the IBMs didn't usually have that tempting gap)?
posted by dhartung at 5:24 PM on July 2, 2002
Remember cutting holes in the corner of your one-sided floppies to make them double-sided? Remember how it didn't work half the time? Remember when Apple tried to popularize the name "twiggy" for the 3.5" diskette? (Or was it something even less likely?) Remember when people thought that "hard disk" was a 3.5" because, well, the other kind were more floppy? Remember needing to extricate floppies from between two Apple II or TRS-80 disk drives (the IBMs didn't usually have that tempting gap)?
posted by dhartung at 5:24 PM on July 2, 2002
5¼? Pfft... 8"? Shyeah, right.
Gimme punch cards, baby... I'm talking old school, here. Teletype paper tapes, even.
young whippersnappers....
posted by crunchland at 5:42 PM on July 2, 2002
Gimme punch cards, baby... I'm talking old school, here. Teletype paper tapes, even.
young whippersnappers....
posted by crunchland at 5:42 PM on July 2, 2002
Ah, yes. And some games (RPGs, mostly) had a Program Disk and a Data Disk. I can't fathom running software these days that wouldn't have to be installed on a hard drive to run, and oh how I would have killed for a hard drive back in the day. There was something like a 20MB hard drive for the Commodores called the Lt. Kernal, and it was around $900 or somesuch -- well out of range for the only people who could have possibly used that much space: kids to store their pirated games.
And then there was the hack for the Commodore 1541 drive that would play a song (Auld Lang Syne?) by spinning the drive head at different speeds.
posted by robbie01 at 5:47 PM on July 2, 2002
And then there was the hack for the Commodore 1541 drive that would play a song (Auld Lang Syne?) by spinning the drive head at different speeds.
posted by robbie01 at 5:47 PM on July 2, 2002
5¼? Pfft... 8"? Shyeah, right.
Gimme punch cards, baby... I'm talking old school, here. Teletype paper tapes, even.
young whippersnappers....
Hey Hey Hey, I still have to use a punch tape reader from time to time.
posted by CJB at 6:29 PM on July 2, 2002
Gimme punch cards, baby... I'm talking old school, here. Teletype paper tapes, even.
young whippersnappers....
Hey Hey Hey, I still have to use a punch tape reader from time to time.
posted by CJB at 6:29 PM on July 2, 2002
punch cards? pfft.. try having to replace burnt out vaccuum tubes....
posted by andrewraff at 6:32 PM on July 2, 2002
posted by andrewraff at 6:32 PM on July 2, 2002
Remember when Apple tried to popularize the name "twiggy" for the 3.5" diskette? (Or was it something even less likely?)
The Twiggy was a four-headed 5.25" drive used in the original Lisa.
I can't believe the sample Beagle Bros jacket doesn't have the warning icons that were printed on the back.
posted by kindall at 9:23 PM on July 2, 2002
The Twiggy was a four-headed 5.25" drive used in the original Lisa.
I can't believe the sample Beagle Bros jacket doesn't have the warning icons that were printed on the back.
posted by kindall at 9:23 PM on July 2, 2002
Heh. Those Beagle Bros. warnings are delightfully droll.
People seem to have a soft spot for obsolete media formats. They tend to represent the cares and concerns of a former generation--a simpler era. I'm sure we'll be seeing "classic VHS video cassette jackets" before long...
posted by Down10 at 12:53 AM on July 3, 2002
People seem to have a soft spot for obsolete media formats. They tend to represent the cares and concerns of a former generation--a simpler era. I'm sure we'll be seeing "classic VHS video cassette jackets" before long...
posted by Down10 at 12:53 AM on July 3, 2002
I remember thinking software was called that because it came on a floppy (soft) disk that the teacher had to come around and boot each of our Apple IIs with, sitting two or three pupils to a machine. Half of your class's alotted time in the "Chalk Dust Free Computer Lab", which your class only visited once a week for an hour, was spent as the teacher went "apple to apple" sticking an ineffable plastic card in a slot making it grind and vibrate and then it was over. Off to recess.
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:22 AM on July 3, 2002
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:22 AM on July 3, 2002
I remember thinking software was called that because it came on a floppy (soft) disk that the teacher had to come around and boot each of our Apple IIs with, sitting two or three pupils to a machine. Half of your class's alotted time in the "Chalk Dust Free Computer Lab", which your class only visited once a week for an hour, was spent as the teacher went "apple to apple" sticking an ineffable plastic card in a slot making it grind and vibrate and then it was over. Off to recess.
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:26 AM on July 3, 2002
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:26 AM on July 3, 2002
I remember thinking software was called that because it came on a floppy (soft) disk that the teacher had to come around and boot each of our Apple IIs with, sitting two or three pupils to a machine. Half of your class's alotted time in the "Chalk Dust Free Computer Lab", which your class only visited once a week for an hour, was spent as the teacher went "apple to apple" sticking an ineffable plastic card in a slot making it grind and vibrate and then it was over. Off to recess.
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:26 AM on July 3, 2002
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:26 AM on July 3, 2002
I remember thinking software was called that because it came on a floppy (soft) disk that the teacher had to come around and boot each of our Apple IIs with, sitting two or three pupils to a machine. Half of your class's alotted time in the "Chalk Dust Free Computer Lab", which your class only visited once a week for an hour, was spent as the teacher went "apple to apple" sticking an ineffable plastic card in a slot making it grind and vibrate and then it was over. Off to recess.
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:27 AM on July 3, 2002
Thing that always got me, were the kids who got booted up first had sometimes fifteen extra minutes of computer time as those of us who came last. Vice being versa.
Remember Logo? I always hated giving it the command to make a circle. It took long, arduous minutes of watching "the turtle" jump pixel to pixel as it rendered one.
TO CIRCLE REPEAT [FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1 ]
E N D
posted by crasspastor at 1:27 AM on July 3, 2002
Anybody remember having to get the "translator Disk" for the Atari XL series to make it compatible with the regular 400/800?
I can still remember sitting at my computer for a half hour watching Temple of the Apshai boot off of the tape drive, only to have it not work because I didn't have the Translator disk....
posted by szg8 at 12:13 PM on July 3, 2002
I can still remember sitting at my computer for a half hour watching Temple of the Apshai boot off of the tape drive, only to have it not work because I didn't have the Translator disk....
posted by szg8 at 12:13 PM on July 3, 2002
I think you coded too much "circle" in your "repeat," crasspastor....
posted by rushmc at 1:55 PM on July 3, 2002
posted by rushmc at 1:55 PM on July 3, 2002
I use Konqueror as my browser. I've never seen it do this before. But all I was trying to do was post that I meant to write "inscrutable" rather than "ineffable". Upon hitting preview, yes PREVIEW, it apparently posted what sat in it's cache or something, not the correction that I wanted posted.
posted by crasspastor at 5:20 PM on July 3, 2002
posted by crasspastor at 5:20 PM on July 3, 2002
I use Konqueror as my browser. I've never seen it do this before. But all I was trying to do was post that I meant to write "inscrutable" rather than "ineffable". Upon hitting preview, yes PREVIEW, it apparently posted what sat in it's cache or something, not the correction that I wanted posted.
posted by crasspastor at 5:21 PM on July 3, 2002
posted by crasspastor at 5:21 PM on July 3, 2002
I use Konqueror as my browser. I've never seen it do this before. But all I was trying to do was post that I meant to write "inscrutable" rather than "ineffable". Upon hitting preview, yes PREVIEW, it apparently posted what sat in it's cache or something, not the correction that I wanted posted.
posted by crasspastor at 5:23 PM on July 3, 2002
posted by crasspastor at 5:23 PM on July 3, 2002
I use Konqueror as my browser. I've never seen it do this before. But all I was trying to do was post that I meant to write "inscrutable" rather than "ineffable". Upon hitting preview, yes PREVIEW, it apparently posted what sat in it's cache or something, not the correction that I wanted posted.
posted by crasspastor at 5:26 PM on July 3, 2002
posted by crasspastor at 5:26 PM on July 3, 2002
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