[ale] a moment of silence please

[Dustin Puryear]

Well, you win!

There are two games I remember fondly that came on floppy disks: Ultima
6 and Warlords. I played the original Warlords to death. All the later
versions sucked.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Woodfield
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:49 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

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
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo


_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo