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Dalek Dave

nothing to be sorry about, a couple of years ahead and using stuff like teletypes etc from when I was 11. (I was a precocious and obnoxious child, but I improved somewhat, I am no longer precocious).

--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

Matthew Faithfull

:laugh: How I would laugh indeed to hear those words from one such as him.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

PIEBALDconsult

The disks are floppy even if the protective carriers aren't.

Dr Walt Fair PE

I use tape all the time. As a verb. Why just yesterday I taped a message. On the side of my computer, so I would be reminded to do something. Floppy disks were indeed floppy. That was before they made them hard. Especially if you took them out of the wrapper they were in. Yes, after spilling a soft drink on a floppy, I did take one out, wash it off and put it in another so I could still use it. I figure the next best thing will be flexible electronics, so everything will be floppy again. So, if we shouldn't use "search engine", is it OK to use "search engines" to refer to the whole group of Bings and Googles and ... ?

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Member 4194593

I remember old Apple IIE 5 1/2 soft sector disks. Someone once brought me a disk that they had removed from the shell and folded in half an put in a book. They wanted to read it again. I decided that the only way was to try. I took the disk and unfolded it and bent it in reverse across the edge of the table and rubbed the fold across the desk edge. I put the manfled disk back in the shell and put it in the reader. It trashed around with a great deal of noise, BUT THE DAMNED THING READ COMPLETELY (I was doing a dick copy in case this worked one time only).

Lost User

Is the correct answer.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

Keith Barrow

It shows a distinct lack of intellectual curiosity that the journo didn't even open on up to see what was inside. He also didn't follow the logic through: the case it came in wasn't a disk either.

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
-Or-
A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

Gary R Wheeler

Obviously written by a 20-something douchebag with only a grammar school education. Artificial intelligence is a useful term for any application that deliberately emulates human reasoning to solve a problem. 'Surfing the web' is evocative of the experience: lightly touching here and there, occasionally dipping your toe in, drowning in the breakers if you're not careful. 'Web cam', a camera for putting pictures and video on the web. What's wrong with that? 'Tape' as a verb; we still use the phrases 'turn it up' or 'turn it down' for volume, don't we? Smartphones; not all of them are smart, thankfully, and they still make actual phone calls. At one time, floppy disks were indeed floppy[^].

Software Zen: delete this;

Rob Graham

SoMad wrote:

how old the author of "Ten tech terms we could do without" is.

12?

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" John Scalzi "Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson

Mark_Wallace

The 3 1/2" discs were also floppy; it was the case that was rigid. If I put water in a steel canteen, the water is still liquid.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

SoMad

I agree I probably should have noted this, but I am not sure the general public (those not on CodeProject) think about it that way - obviously the writer (I find it difficult to call him a journalist) never cracked open a 3 1/2" floppy disk case. Soren

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty