[ale] a moment of silence please

Dustin Puryear dpuryear at puryear-it.com
Wed Apr 28 10:19:40 EDT 2010


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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Dustin Puryear
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:53 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

Haha..

Great show. The fiancee is addicted to it, and I have to admit I can't
stop watching it once it's own. I do cringe a lot while watching it
though.

DEAD CATS
LOTS OF DEAD CATS

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
William Fragakis
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:39 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes!We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

On an upcoming episode of "Hoarders"...

wf

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:24 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> YOU HAD MAGNETIC MEDIA?!?!?!?!?
> 
> toggle switches, and paper tape were the IO methods on the first
> computer I had access to. It was a big next step up to be able to use
> punch cards for program entry over those horrid toggle switches. And
> output was multiple feet of wide greenbar with tractor holes never
> quite were perforated correctly for fast tear off. 
> 
> And it wasn't my Dad's computer room with the bazillion floppies and
> rw tape. It was mine. :-)
> 
> I still have a huge pile of floppies with win 3.1, MS office, autocad,
> mathmatica, Lotus 1,2,3, excel 4, quicken, Prodigy and the upgrade to
> 14,400baud, etc. I may still have my first Slackware floppies
> downloaded over that speed-boosted 14.4 modem.
> 
> Still have a box of zip disks with the tons-o-crap downloaded from
> uusnet as I bounced between win3.11 and slackware.
> 
> 
> Hmm. Maybe I should throw out some cruft...
> 
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Richard Bronosky
> <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
>         I remember the punch tools. I remember using a soldering iron
>         on the
>         3.5s and cleaning up the hole with an Xacto. I'll raise you:
>         knowing
>         exactly where in my Dad's "computer room" I could go today to
>         find the
>         little black stickers that I would put on a 5.25 to make it
>         writable
>         again. I'll raise you: going to visit my dad for the weekend
>         to find
>         my room full of ceiling to floor stacks of boxes of 5.25
>         floppies when
>         it was his turn to look after the inventory of CUGA*. Good
>         times!
>         
>         *Computer User's Group of Ashland (KY), which was basically
>         like a
>         monthly software swap meet.
>         
>         
>         On 4/28/10, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
>         > A friend of mine once bought OS/2 on cd.  I know we had 2.0
>         and Warp,
>         > but I'm pretty certain this was Warp.  We were probably in
>         the early
>         > part of high school.  He didn't own a cd-rom drive, but I
>         did.  A
>         > monstrous 1x sony external deal that used caddies.
>         >
>         > He saved 10 or 20 bucks by going cd instead of floppy.  But
>         we had to
>         > find 10-20 floppies to use to create the install disks.  We
>         made those
>         > at my house and we walked the couple miles to his house to
>         install it.
>         > Half way through we hit our first bad floppy...  So we had
>         to go back,
>         > recreate that one...  I think we had to do that twice.
>         >
>         > I don't miss 3.5 inch floppies.  My fond memories are of
>         5.25 floppies.
>         >   I had a neat little punch tool that made perfect clean
>         holes to make
>         > the other side writable in the Apple drives.
>         >
>         > The 3.5 punch tool was much more monstrous by comparison,
>         and the hard
>         > plastic didn't cut as cleanly.  I do remember once melting a
>         hole in a
>         > 3.5 floppy with a soldering iron to make it high density...
>         >
>         > Pat
>         >
>         > On 04/28/2010 12:49 AM, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>         >> 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
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