[ale] a moment of silence please

[Richard Faulkner]

I have memories as a tech writer using dual (vertical "toaster" drives)
8" floppy disks...back in the days of DOS and ^B^I^UWordStar^U^I^B.
That was back in the mid-80's and I was just out-of-college.  Went to
working at Sequent Computing Systems after that in Beaverton, Oregon
driving UNIX/DYNIX in building their parallel processing systems (dual
i386 based mainboards w/12 to a cabinet).  Anyone remember RG-8?  Yellow
Garden Hose and old bus networks?  Anyone remember dinosaurs?  I swear
somewhere around here I have an autographed Bible....(hehehe)


-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at puryear-it.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:59:26 -0500


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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