[ale] a moment of silence please

[m-aaron-r]

On 2010/04/28, at 07:42 , Jerald Sheets wrote:

> For me it's the 31 disks of MS Office 2.0
> --j

37 & 43 disk sets of floppies for  Amiga Toaster Flyer Install
(verstion 3.1 & 4.3)

peace
aaron


> On Apr 27, 2010, at 6:59 PM, 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
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