macsonny Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Just printed myself about 50 named labels for my Atari disks. Anyone spot the obvious error? Sigh. 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) It seems to be an overgrown 3.5" disk Edited March 28, 2023 by Peri Noid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Peri Noid said: It seems to be an overgrown 3.5" disk Actually it is a "special" flexible 3.5" disk, but @macsonny has very small hands! 😉 Edited March 28, 2023 by Irgendwer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Those steroids really work! But those are nice looking labels. InkJet or Laser printer? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayoK Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 And 3.5" are "diskettes" as they are in hard plastic ... a 5.25" is just a "disc" if I remember... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACML Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Also, "Flexible Diskette", it's a "floppy disk". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 could be large label and a large hand? 🙃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 8" was Floppy 5.52 was Flexible 3.5 was Flexible cartridge but that became 8 inch floppy 5.25 flexible/floppy 3.5" flexible it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foft Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Perhaps if you colour in the '3.' in black it'll be close enough... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: 8" was Floppy 5.52 was Flexible 3.5 was Flexible cartridge but that became 8 inch floppy 5.25 flexible/floppy 3.5" flexible it is what it is. If I had a nickel for every person I heard call a 3.5" disk, a "hard disk"... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) Toss me the hard disk, just chuck that puppy across the room !!! I bet you'd be a much richer man! I believe it! Edited March 28, 2023 by _The Doctor__ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 If I had 1/10 of a nickel for everyone calling a Pegasus cartridge "a floppy" (especially here in Poland) or even 1/100 of it for everyone calling a floppy image with a game "a ROM"... 🤪 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Peri Noid said: or even 1/100 of it for everyone calling a floppy image with a game "a ROM"... 🤪 I'll take money on that... but they don't just call floppy images ROMs, they call all emulation files ROMs (XEX, CAS, and even BAS files included)... and make it ROMz for good measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 38 minutes ago, Peri Noid said: or even 1/100 of it for everyone calling a floppy image with a game "a ROM"... 🤪 Yeah, that bugs the heck out of me for some reason. I've given up trying to correct everyone that I find using the term though. Life is far too short! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 hour ago, zzip said: If I had a nickel for every person I heard call a 3.5" disk, a "hard disk"... Or for every time a hard disk is called a 'hard drive', even by retrocomputing people, who should know better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) Washing Machine sized hard drives existed as did the hard disks you'd load into them. They were not fixed disks though. Fixed disks are not hard drives. Fixed disks are unified with drive mechanisms. You can see where this is going. So a fixed disk is as a unit of rigid magnetic disk(s) (platter(s)) mounted permanently in a drive unit and stays inside an enclosure that normally does not move, and is not easily removed. A removable disk is as a floppy diskette or compact disc are, both easily inserted and removed from the computer or enclosure. Removable hard disks did have drives that were referred as hard disk drives though and were essentially smaller versions or what I stated at the top of this post. You could say it's come full circle... Now insert the cartridge of hard disks into the removable hard disk drive and run! Edited March 28, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) 29 minutes ago, ClausB said: Or for every time a hard disk is called a 'hard drive', even by retrocomputing people, who should know better. Depends what's on it... 😁: Edited March 28, 2023 by Irgendwer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 This is called a CD-ROM because it holds lots of ROM files, right? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 9 minutes ago, zzip said: This is called a CD-ROM because it holds lots of ROM files, right? once they are on the disk they became rom files, except then they came out with CD-ReWritable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said: Washing Machine sized hard drives existed as did the hard disks you'd load into them. They were not fixed disks though. Fixed disks are not hard drives. Fixed disks are unified with drive mechanisms. You can see where this is going. So a fixed disk is as a unit of rigid magnetic disk(s) (platter(s)) mounted permanently in a drive unit and stays inside an enclosure that normally does not move, and is not easily removed. A removable disk is as a floppy diskette or compact disc are, both easily inserted and removed from the computer or enclosure. Removable hard disks did have drives that were referred as hard disk drives though and were essentially smaller versions or what I stated at the top of this post. You could say it's come full circle... Now insert the cartridge of hard disks into the removable hard disk drive and run! What would an SSD be then if "drive" is incorrect? It's not round and doesn't spin so it's not a disk. Even though it behaves like a 'fixed disk' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) flash storage solid-state storage device Edited March 28, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, zzip said: What would an SSD be then if "drive" is incorrect? Isn't SSD = Solid State Disk or Solid State Drive? Makes a lot of sense. 🤪 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) solid-state storage device there is no Disk Edited March 28, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 19 minutes ago, DjayBee said: Isn't SSD = Solid State Disk or Solid State Drive? Makes a lot of sense. 🤪 Solid State Drive according to Wikipedia which is always correct of course.... 7 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: solid-state storage device So SS/SD? We've come full circle! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsonny Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 Ok - so this conversation went down a completely unexpected path !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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