reading legacy floppy disks
Howard Gibson
hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 7 13:53:34 UTC 2006
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:27:42 -0400
James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
for the computer museum you saw.
> >
> > I still have the 5-1/4, at least until I find another need for the drive bay.
> >
>
> You're lucky. When I took Fortran, BASIC and Pascal courses there, back
> in the mid '80s, we couldn't even use floppies. We used an IBM
> mainframe there and the only way to get the code out, was via print out
> or dial up access.
>
> When I took C at George Brown College in 1995, we could use 3.5"
> floppies. However, in class we used Turbo C on Windows 3.1, while at
> home I used Borland C on OS/2, so I had to be careful about variable
> sizes. For example an int was 16 bits in Borland C, but only 8 in
> Turbo. On occasion, my code would work fine at home, but crap out in
> class because I'd overflowed a variable.
>
> Also, when I was taking Fortran at Ryerson, I did my homework on a VAX
> 11/780 at work. That also meant I had to be careful about a few things.
>
> --
James,
I graduated from Ryerson in 1982, and I took Fortran, and I may still have some of the punch cards. Unfortunately, I lost the punched tape for my CNC project.
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