[ale] a moment of silence please
Dustin Puryear
dpuryear at puryear-it.com
Wed Apr 28 09:53:08 EDT 2010
Haha..
Great show. The fiancee is addicted to it, and I have to admit I can't
stop watching it once it's own. I do cringe a lot while watching it
though.
DEAD CATS
LOTS OF DEAD CATS
-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
William Fragakis
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:39 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes!We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please
On an upcoming episode of "Hoarders"...
wf
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:24 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> YOU HAD MAGNETIC MEDIA?!?!?!?!?
>
> toggle switches, and paper tape were the IO methods on the first
> computer I had access to. It was a big next step up to be able to use
> punch cards for program entry over those horrid toggle switches. And
> output was multiple feet of wide greenbar with tractor holes never
> quite were perforated correctly for fast tear off.
>
> And it wasn't my Dad's computer room with the bazillion floppies and
> rw tape. It was mine. :-)
>
> I still have a huge pile of floppies with win 3.1, MS office, autocad,
> mathmatica, Lotus 1,2,3, excel 4, quicken, Prodigy and the upgrade to
> 14,400baud, etc. I may still have my first Slackware floppies
> downloaded over that speed-boosted 14.4 modem.
>
> Still have a box of zip disks with the tons-o-crap downloaded from
> uusnet as I bounced between win3.11 and slackware.
>
>
> Hmm. Maybe I should throw out some cruft...
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Richard Bronosky
> <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> I remember the punch tools. I remember using a soldering iron
> on the
> 3.5s and cleaning up the hole with an Xacto. I'll raise you:
> knowing
> exactly where in my Dad's "computer room" I could go today to
> find the
> little black stickers that I would put on a 5.25 to make it
> writable
> again. I'll raise you: going to visit my dad for the weekend
> to find
> my room full of ceiling to floor stacks of boxes of 5.25
> floppies when
> it was his turn to look after the inventory of CUGA*. Good
> times!
>
> *Computer User's Group of Ashland (KY), which was basically
> like a
> monthly software swap meet.
>
>
> On 4/28/10, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> > A friend of mine once bought OS/2 on cd. I know we had 2.0
> and Warp,
> > but I'm pretty certain this was Warp. We were probably in
> the early
> > part of high school. He didn't own a cd-rom drive, but I
> did. A
> > monstrous 1x sony external deal that used caddies.
> >
> > He saved 10 or 20 bucks by going cd instead of floppy. But
> we had to
> > find 10-20 floppies to use to create the install disks. We
> made those
> > at my house and we walked the couple miles to his house to
> install it.
> > Half way through we hit our first bad floppy... So we had
> to go back,
> > recreate that one... I think we had to do that twice.
> >
> > I don't miss 3.5 inch floppies. My fond memories are of
> 5.25 floppies.
> > I had a neat little punch tool that made perfect clean
> holes to make
> > the other side writable in the Apple drives.
> >
> > The 3.5 punch tool was much more monstrous by comparison,
> and the hard
> > plastic didn't cut as cleanly. I do remember once melting a
> hole in a
> > 3.5 floppy with a soldering iron to make it high density...
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > On 04/28/2010 12:49 AM, Chris Woodfield wrote:
> >> I see your loading Windows 3.1 from floppies and raise you
> multiple
> >> installs of Microsoft Office 5.1(?) for Mac - I think there
> were at least
> >> 30 floppy disks in the box. And Windows 95 clocked in at 15
> disks?
> >>
> >> -C
> >>
> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 6:59 26PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have vague memories of loading Windows 3.11 from
> floppies when I was
> >>> in 9'th grade or so. Wow.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> Behalf Of
> >>> Michael Trausch
> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:11 PM
> >>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> >>> Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Paul
> Cartwright<ale at pcartwright.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> JoshuaInNippon writes "In a brief press release buried
> within Sony
> >>> Japan's
> >>>> website, the company announced that they would be ending
> sales of the
> >>> classic
> >>>> 3.5 inch floppy disk in the country in March of 2011.
> Sony introduced
> >>> the
> >>>> size to the world in 1981, which saw its heyday in the
> 1990s. Sony has
> >>> been
> >>>> one of the last major manufacturers to continue shipments
> of the disk
> >>> type
> >>>> they helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales
> in March of
> >>> this
> >>>> year. The company's production of the 3.5 inch floppy
> ceased in 2009.
> >>> Sony
> >>>> noted the demand, or a lack thereof, as the reason. The
> company's
> >>> withdrawal
> >>>> is one of the final marks in the slow death of the floppy
> era."
> >>>
> >>> Being that I *still* use 3.5" floppy disks, this does make
> me quite sad.
> >>>
> >>> I use them these days as ~900KB encrypted stores (with
> duplicates!) of
> >>> small things like encryption keys and certificates.
> Something about
> >>> sorting the things and working with them without them
> being in my
> >>> $HOME is nice to me.
> >>>
> >>> -- Mike
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