Found this sweet floppy at my parents place yesterday.
I dont even know if 1.44MB was alot, average or a little back then.

It was heaps, could store an entire OS on 7 of them 😎

Multiple pictures, text files, the 10MB hard drivers felt like 1TB drives today.

1-2-3 spreadsheets and wordstar documents were usually only slightly larger than the number of user-entered characters in them, so a single 1.44MB floppy could hold lots of important data.

A typical game usually required 2 or maybe 3 floppies, and the game would prompt you to insert whichever disk when necessary.

Most PCs didn't really have hard disks back then. We got our Tandy in 1986, and finally got a 10MB hard disk in it in maybe 1988. That 10MB lasted a LONG time.

As others said, it was hefty. Wasn't alive for the prime of floppy disks, but I saw them used when I was about 8 or 9. It'd save a solid amount even then, though CDs and flash drives were becoming more common, if I can remember correctly.

Your post got me thinking, I used to play ‘Prince of Persia’, on an Atari, I think that came on a handful of floppies. Then I found this article, a great read...
https://wired.com/2012/04/...

@C0D4

We had our OS(DOS 3.2) on a single 720KB 5" floppy that always stayed in the A drive of our 2-drived rig.

@C0D4 @bahua

just out of curiosity, how old are you guys? 😌

@bahua dos3.2 was slightly before my first computer.

My first pc was an I386 with Win3.11 around 93-94 just before win95 anyway.
I missed out on the 5inch floppies 😎

@goodJVM this should give you an idea 😂

That reminds me of The Secret of Monkey Island...

lol... I have a box full of these :D
(I also have a box full of floppy drives... maybe I will make music with them one day)

Reading this post makes me feel really old 😳

My first floppy was 5 1/4 inch 360 Kbyte and housed both msdos 2.11d and the BASIC programs I played around with.

The 3 1/2 inch 1.44 Mbyte was huge in comparison. And a pack of 10 cost the equivalent of $ 100 or so :/

This was around 1986 when I started holding evening computer classes.

It's even got HD 😂

When I was in college one or a set of these was school material...

Back on the time this was a lot of space... I still remember when I upgraded from a 100mb HDD to a 1Gb HDD... I had a feeling of unlimited space!

I use those for carry docs/homework way back.

I’m getting older

@goodJVM

Our first console was a single-game unit. It would play one game, and only one game. And it could not be expanded. And the game was part of the console- there was no cd, cartridge, tape, or disk. It was pong. Seems extremely wasteful now, as I'm sure it was expensive.

I am 39.

*a lot

Oh my sweet summer child...

These were my life growing up.

One of my first computers had like 200mb hard drive and that was considered a tonne.

Floppy disks where everywhere.

At my first school we even had a digital camera (it was the FUTURE!) and it was like 2mp and it took a floppy 😂 you could store like 8 photos before having to run back to class to take them off - buuuut you could delete them on the camera!!! OMFG.

@DevNotFretPet HD for high density, as in 1440 Kbyte instead of the original 720 Kbyte.

@Voxera love your observation, but I was only joking lol!

@DevNotFretPet guessed so, but I also guess many would not know this =)

@Voxera true lol!

Don't you mean 1.38mb?

@Root i mean 1.44MB, but idk if its wrong. I just wrote what was printed on the flopper :)

@JiggleTits 1.44mb floppies have a 1.38mb capacity when formatted.

@Root

Depending on the filesystem.

@bahua ofc :p

Man people ran entire businesses off one of those babies! 🤣