An age test???
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Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain -
Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainDouble fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.
Software Zen:
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Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twainyoung whippersnapper... I remember cold start cards.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Urban Cricket wrote:
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
FTFY
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Where is config.sys?
Hey! You'a say'a da tings about'a da config'a my systa, an you pay'a da price!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainYes! :laugh:
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Memmaker ftw. Used to hate fighting for memory and trying to run my mouse driver same time.
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Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.
Software Zen:
delete this;Cool - I love bats. But at 2 am I guess you have other plans... :laugh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Richard Deeming wrote:
5¼" floppy
Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twainin 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.
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in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.
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What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? :-D
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
At least we no longer have to worry about kinky hard drives that insist on a master slave relationships...
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I learned my first BASIC using one of those - located in the school's bomb shelter: Huge room with concrete walls, floor and ceiling. Just the right acoustics for a TTY! Down in my basement, I have still got a few of those paper tapes. (I also got a small pile of punch cards. As well as a core dump, in the physical sense: A frame with 1152 ferrite rings weaved together. I have no idea about the contents of those 1152 bits.)
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We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.
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Fixed typos: Where's config, sis?
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I started that way -- with punched tape, a teletype and remote GE time-share system using some flavor of BASIC.
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We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.
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I started that way -- with punched tape, a teletype and remote GE time-share system using some flavor of BASIC.
Part of my first job - machine code programming a DEC LSI-11 (4K core memory + 16k RAM) to control a tomographic medical scanner and reconstruct the images (using de-convolution and back-projection). Teletype was only for development - working machine just had the core memory.
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Richard Deeming wrote:
5¼" floppy
Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Check out the Q&A from the last week or so. There is someone in there doing development in MS-DOS and can't seem to be able to find various pieces of software that will work with it. Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Rick York wrote:
Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
My last 2 or 3 motherboards lacked a floppy drive connector, so I couldn't install a non-USB drive if I wanted to. First time it happened I was disappointed -- I had a floppy drive that included a 8-in-1 card reader (drive had USB cable as well as EIDE), and I wanted to install it for the card reader. But stick-type SD-card readers are so common these days -- I have 5 or 6 sitting on my desk at home. I have an unopened box of 3.5" floppy disks on my desk -- found it in the back of a supply cabinet. It's a novelty. It's bizarre to think of 1.44 MB of storage compared to the the idea that 16 to 64 GB flash drives are so inexpensive.
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When one of my friends married, we used stuff as a replacement for rice. (The groom was also a computer guy.)
That wasn't a good idea. Those little paper discs were actually quite dangerous. We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
