[ale] a moment of silence please

[Thompson Freeman]

My mother wanted to join in the computer revolution, and in  
consultation with a dealer, her sons, and some other  
information settled on a KayPro lugable with dual floppies  
and DP/M using WordStar. When it was time to retire the  
KayPro about 1987, we shifted her to a Mac, and spent close  
to two years trying to get her to use the mouse instead of  
the WordStar diamond for cursor control.

On 04/28/2010 08:17:26 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> 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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