Is it hoarding if you still play with it?<br><br>Umm. Is this mic on? ...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:39 AM, William Fragakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On an upcoming episode of "Hoarders"...<br>
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On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:24 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> YOU HAD MAGNETIC MEDIA?!?!?!?!?<br>
><br>
> toggle switches, and paper tape were the IO methods on the first<br>
> computer I had access to. It was a big next step up to be able to use<br>
> punch cards for program entry over those horrid toggle switches. And<br>
> output was multiple feet of wide greenbar with tractor holes never<br>
> quite were perforated correctly for fast tear off.<br>
><br>
> And it wasn't my Dad's computer room with the bazillion floppies and<br>
> rw tape. It was mine. :-)<br>
><br>
> I still have a huge pile of floppies with win 3.1, MS office, autocad,<br>
> mathmatica, Lotus 1,2,3, excel 4, quicken, Prodigy and the upgrade to<br>
> 14,400baud, etc. I may still have my first Slackware floppies<br>
> downloaded over that speed-boosted 14.4 modem.<br>
><br>
> Still have a box of zip disks with the tons-o-crap downloaded from<br>
> uusnet as I bounced between win3.11 and slackware.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Hmm. Maybe I should throw out some cruft...<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Richard Bronosky<br>
> <<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I remember the punch tools. I remember using a soldering iron<br>
> on the<br>
> 3.5s and cleaning up the hole with an Xacto. I'll raise you:<br>
> knowing<br>
> exactly where in my Dad's "computer room" I could go today to<br>
> find the<br>
> little black stickers that I would put on a 5.25 to make it<br>
> writable<br>
> again. I'll raise you: going to visit my dad for the weekend<br>
> to find<br>
> my room full of ceiling to floor stacks of boxes of 5.25<br>
> floppies when<br>
> it was his turn to look after the inventory of CUGA*. Good<br>
> times!<br>
><br>
> *Computer User's Group of Ashland (KY), which was basically<br>
> like a<br>
> monthly software swap meet.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 4/28/10, Pat Regan <<a href="mailto:thehead@patshead.com">thehead@patshead.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > A friend of mine once bought OS/2 on cd. I know we had 2.0<br>
> and Warp,<br>
> > but I'm pretty certain this was Warp. We were probably in<br>
> the early<br>
> > part of high school. He didn't own a cd-rom drive, but I<br>
> did. A<br>
> > monstrous 1x sony external deal that used caddies.<br>
> ><br>
> > He saved 10 or 20 bucks by going cd instead of floppy. But<br>
> we had to<br>
> > find 10-20 floppies to use to create the install disks. We<br>
> made those<br>
> > at my house and we walked the couple miles to his house to<br>
> install it.<br>
> > Half way through we hit our first bad floppy... So we had<br>
> to go back,<br>
> > recreate that one... I think we had to do that twice.<br>
> ><br>
> > I don't miss 3.5 inch floppies. My fond memories are of<br>
> 5.25 floppies.<br>
> > I had a neat little punch tool that made perfect clean<br>
> holes to make<br>
> > the other side writable in the Apple drives.<br>
> ><br>
> > The 3.5 punch tool was much more monstrous by comparison,<br>
> and the hard<br>
> > plastic didn't cut as cleanly. I do remember once melting a<br>
> hole in a<br>
> > 3.5 floppy with a soldering iron to make it high density...<br>
> ><br>
> > Pat<br>
> ><br>
> > On 04/28/2010 12:49 AM, Chris Woodfield wrote:<br>
> >> I see your loading Windows 3.1 from floppies and raise you<br>
> multiple<br>
> >> installs of Microsoft Office 5.1(?) for Mac - I think there<br>
> were at least<br>
> >> 30 floppy disks in the box. And Windows 95 clocked in at 15<br>
> disks?<br>
> >><br>
> >> -C<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 6:59 26PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> I have vague memories of loading Windows 3.11 from<br>
> floppies when I was<br>
> >>> in 9'th grade or so. Wow.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> -----Original Message-----<br>
> >>> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of<br>
> >>> Michael Trausch<br>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:11 PM<br>
> >>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
> >>> Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Paul<br>
> Cartwright<<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>><br>
> >>> wrote:<br>
> >>>> JoshuaInNippon writes "In a brief press release buried<br>
> within Sony<br>
> >>> Japan's<br>
> >>>> website, the company announced that they would be ending<br>
> sales of the<br>
> >>> classic<br>
> >>>> 3.5 inch floppy disk in the country in March of 2011.<br>
> Sony introduced<br>
> >>> the<br>
> >>>> size to the world in 1981, which saw its heyday in the<br>
> 1990s. Sony has<br>
> >>> been<br>
> >>>> one of the last major manufacturers to continue shipments<br>
> of the disk<br>
> >>> type<br>
> >>>> they helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales<br>
> in March of<br>
> >>> this<br>
> >>>> year. The company's production of the 3.5 inch floppy<br>
> ceased in 2009.<br>
> >>> Sony<br>
> >>>> noted the demand, or a lack thereof, as the reason. The<br>
> company's<br>
> >>> withdrawal<br>
> >>>> is one of the final marks in the slow death of the floppy<br>
> era."<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Being that I *still* use 3.5" floppy disks, this does make<br>
> me quite sad.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I use them these days as ~900KB encrypted stores (with<br>
> duplicates!) of<br>
> >>> small things like encryption keys and certificates.<br>
> Something about<br>
> >>> sorting the things and working with them without them<br>
> being in my<br>
> >>> $HOME is nice to me.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> -- Mike<br>
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