>>I wrote an app for Marshal's business in WangBasic back in '78. The machine came with 2 8" floppy drives and we quickly added a third. I remember the amazing realization that we could swap the disks in and out during the app to increase storage capacity.
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>My first job was writing software for an insurance company using Wang Basic and we had 8" floppy disks in the machine. Each of our regional offices stored their agent information on those disks and would occassionally have to send us their stack of floppies so we could "reorganize" them which meant copying the data to the hard drive, resorting the data, and then rewriting it to several 8" floppies. It was always "scary" when they shipped them to us because if they were lost in the mail .. oh well .. they were screwed .. data lost!

We didn't even have a hard drive on the machine that ran this app. IIRC, the machine cost around $20,000 and a hard drive would have been another $20,000.

Tamar