88-94 AUX Input How-To

[df2x4]

Wow I just saw this old post today.... my friend that's not a 5.25" floppy, that's an 8"

Richard

So it is! I didn't pay that close of attention when I linked that pic. The physical design was basically identical between the two.

I never had the privilege of owning or messing with an 8" drive, but the old 386 that my dad had when I was a little kid had a 5.25" drive. I remember he had one of his friends help write a program that he used in his construction business for years. He could basically input a square footage area and have the program spit out a number as an estimate to build it. It was a really neat simple design but I remember it blowing my mind as a kid. Seemed like magic.

 

[someotherguy]

but the old 386 that my dad had when I was a little kid had a 5.25" drive.

Old 386... :/

When I was a little kid, my mom brought home a brand new NEC PC-8801a which ran CP/M. I learned CP/M, Wordstar, and basic...got stupid fast at typing too. This was right about the time that the first IBM PC had hit the market. 386's were years away... when I got my first "real" job was at a PC shop and was building clone PC/XT's with the TURBO function (4.77 or 8 mhz!) lol

Richard

 

[df2x4]

TURBO function

Holy nostalgia blast...

Back when people wrote games based on the system clock. I remember having fun trying to play stuff at like 400% speed.

 

[Knuckle Dragger]

Nothing says old guy like "text games"

And we liked them.