[ale] a moment of silence please

[Geoffrey]

Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I have vague memories of loading Windows 3.11 from floppies when I was
> in 9'th grade or so. Wow.

I've still got my floppy of Netscape 1.1.  That's right, Netscape 1.1 
fit on a floppy. ;)

Still have my Windows 3.11 floppies as well, the whole set.

> 
> -----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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-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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