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I have memories as a tech writer using dual (vertical "toaster" drives) 8" floppy disks...back in the days of DOS and ^B^I^UWordStar^U^I^B. That was back in the mid-80's and I was just out-of-college. Went to working at Sequent Computing Systems after that in Beaverton, Oregon driving UNIX/DYNIX in building their parallel processing systems (dual i386 based mainboards w/12 to a cabinet). Anyone remember RG-8? Yellow Garden Hose and old bus networks? Anyone remember dinosaurs? I swear somewhere around here I have an autographed Bible....(hehehe)<BR>
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<B>From</B>: Dustin Puryear <<A HREF="mailto:Dustin%20Puryear%20%3cdpuryear@puryear-it.com%3e">dpuryear@puryear-it.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes!%20We%20run%20Linux!%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:59:26 -0500<BR>
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I have vague memories of loading Windows 3.11 from floppies when I was
in 9'th grade or so. Wow.
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From: <A HREF="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</A> [<A HREF="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</A>] 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 <<A HREF="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</A>>
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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