[ale] TB in an external firewire drive

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Sep 1 12:19:03 EDT 2005


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:55 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>
>>>5MB?  
>>>
>>>C64 with an external 5.25" and a TAPE.  I remember getting REAL excited
>>>when I could re-notch it and double the storage.  Then the 3.5" drives
>>>let us REALLY up the storage on the BBS.
>>>
>>>Before that was a sinclair but that didn't "really" have external
>>>storage, just the carts.
>>
>>Okay you bunch of old farts, how many of you ever USED a slide rule? 
>>Required for my entry into EE at Lousiana Tech U...
> 
> 
> The better question is: How many both still have AND use their first
> slide rule.
> me: Have=1;Use=0.5 (it's holding my place in my MySQL reference manual)
> <can't remember log tables to save my life...>

Have it, don't use it.  Stored away with 3 boxes of punch cards from the 
same era.  Why?  Who knows...

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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