Just googled this, that's awesome.Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were![]()
Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were![]()
Ever better was being an expert at reinserting the daft little spring so the slider would work again.
Proper I.T. hardware "specialists" know what I mean![]()
Kids these days! Even I remember spending a good chunk of my early pc days playing with floppy disks and I'm only 24
Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were![]()
I can remember when I had a floppy boot disk for my dos games, that have all the drivers and configurations for the memory, soundcard, cdrom and mouse
Oh the hours I spent trying to get some games to work, wasn't it the EMS or XMS memory or something which was always in short supply?I had a ton of different disks depending on what needed to be loaded.
Getting TIE Fighter working with a mouse, controller and sound was a challenge but was so worth it.
extended memory above 1MB if you had it.
Two files you had to know backwards,
Config.sys and autoexec.bat
Can't believe we are having to explain why A: and B: are reserved letters.
I feel old![]()