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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I had a client once who got confused, because he wasn't aware that on the new system my employer sold him, there was slot on the 5.25" floppy drive you had to uncover to make it readable. On the 8" CP/M diskettes he was used to, it was the other way around... 
I never had to deal with 8" diskettes, but still have a fair number of 5.25s, as well as 3.5s, and a half height combo drive that can read either.
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Dennis |
This brings back memories and things have certainly changed. In the 1980s I used to use 8 inch diskettes on my CPT system (a dedicated word processor). It had two 8 inch drives, one for the program disk and the other for the data disk.
One nice thing about the screen was that it was a 50-line paper-white screen, giving it the look of a sheet of typing paper. The typewriter analogy was enhanced by the way the cursor worked, you typed on a one line and the rest of the text moved up (much like with paper in a typewriter).
Due to the limitations of the system I had to choose between available features. For example, I could have cut-and-paste, or justified printing (but not at the same time). To change from one feature to another I had to reload the system's program disk.
I had to save each page of a document as a separate file, and could save about 100 pages on a disk. Moving text from one page from another involved merging to pages together and saving them.
As I said, things have certainly changed.