Yeah, some of that later DOS used 5-and a quarter floppy.
It would be a while before hard drives became ubiquitous
like they are today. The density capabilities are now better.
There were hard drives back then, just not that big a capacity

And yes, about ten years before the movie "Tron", the year 
Walter Carlos scored the movie "A Clockwork Orange", Walter 
became Wendy Carlos. Check out Wikipedia (with its links). 
There was a pretty good interview in Keyboard Magazine a 
few years back.


-Partev


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--- andy.fillebrown@gmail.com wrote:

From: andy fillebrown 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Panning
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:11:07 -0500

> Classic Walter Carlos. After he became Wendy Carlos ...

woah, that was news to me, lol.

I'm not as "experienced" as some here, but I do remember booting dos
from a 5.25" floppy as child, then having to switch floppies for
whichever program was desired ...had no idea what a "hard" drive was
back then =)

~ andy.f


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> And yes, about ten years before the movie "Tron", the year
> Walter Carlos scored the movie "A Clockwork Orange", Walter
> became Wendy Carlos. Check out Wikipedia (with its links).
> There was a pretty good interview in Keyboard Magazine a
> few years back.
>
> -Partev



Yeah, I read the wikipedia pages earlier after hearing about the
gender switch in this switch.  Previously, I had no idea and only knew
about him/her from the Wendy side of things.   There's no end of
things to learn from the Csound list I guess =)

Cheers,
~ andy.f


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