I have older sets of floppies, but 6.01v6 is contained on 9 floppies. I'll have to dig around and see how many V3 used. That's when we began with Avid.
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> The original MC came on floppies. Initially about 3 or 4. They continued to supply
> floppies(now 7 or 8) for several years. I think they used floppies from 1989 till maybe
> 1993. There really was no alternative.
> And it was slowwwwwwww to load. I reload of software could take 1-2 hours.(if it worked.)
> What's amazing is that in the beginning, all the compression(4bit) was done in software.
> So in addition to MC software there was compression software.
> MC was a lot simpler than now. Initiallly, cuts only and 2 audio tracks.
> It was a happy day when we got dissolves. Maybe Version 3.0
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> Avid came on floppy diskettes, really? How many? I never would've thought
> you could fit Avid on a diskette, didn't they only hold 1.4 megabytes?
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