If Win 10 still used floppies for install ...

Berton said:

I was luckier, both daughters had moved out freeing up a room for my 'office'. Then I got a Lexmark Optra R Laser printer to add.

The night of the day my son moved out I moved my desk and all my computer stuff into his old room. My wife was almost in tears. She kept telling me that I was cruel, mean, heartless and a few names I can't post because in her words the room isn't even cold yet.

Frabnkhs said:

Remember the Iomega Zip drive? 100 megabytes of storage on a disk about the same size as a hard floppy but a bit fatter?

I still had one but I had no use for it. No place to plug it in on a parallel printer port-less computer

I still have a internal drive and a few disk. I had a external drive but it was dropped on the floor and stopped working.

Past from the blast.

I recall 20 years ago, I was working in a place that had Syquest removable Winchester drives on PCs. The Mac people tended to destroy the cartridges by removing them before the heads had parked. (Macs ejected everything automatically. Even the floppy drives were auto-inject: they'd snatch the floppy out of your had. Cost about 10X what 3.5" drives for PCs did.)

Then there were the 750MB cartridge drives. (Can't recall the make.) Someone destoyed several with a bad cartridge: apparently had a problem with one drive, and tried it again in at least two other drives before giving up. No one ever confessed to that.

On a more personal note, I had several Zip100 drives over the years. Bunch of cartridges, too. Ended up erasing the cartridges - with an 8 pound sledge hammer. Cleaning them to give away without risk of exposing personal information on them would have taken too long.

I think that the last my Hollerith cards (from the late 70s) are gone. Used them as bookmarks.

Berton said:

iOmega had a 750MB Zip but I never got one as the CD-R 650MB discs had come out about the same time then there were the succeeding 700MB discs. The 750MB Zip could read/write 250MB disks and could read 100MB disks but not write to them.

The ones I'm thinking of weren't ZIP drives; they were older, and probably a lot more expensive.

Thinking back, I'm unsure why they didn't use CD-R. Maybe they needed the speed of a removable HD.

NavyLCDR said:

I could not afford the expansion interface for my TRS-80 Model I that would give me 5.25" floppy disk capability and adding 32 KB of RAM, as well as parallel port for a dot matrix printer.

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I bought the expansion interface for my TRS-80 Model I and dual 5-1/4 inch floppy drives. I also bought dual 8 inch floppy drives for it. The 5-1/4 inch floppy disk held about 80K data and a 8 inch floppy disk held about 241K data. Two floppy drives were needed because the first one was used to hold part of the operating system. I also used the 8 inch floppy drives with the mod I bought that allowed the TRS-80 Model I to boot to either TRSDOS or CP/M.