[ale] a moment of silence please
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 09:31:27 EDT 2010
Is it hoarding if you still play with it?
Umm. Is this mic on? ...
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:39 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:
> 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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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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