From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:04:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eejq9kTzSYK1xxagWkGaRHYaoapXrzbCavBHPRRsLTK=A@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>
>>
>> I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell
>> him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has
>> autodetect and just plain work better anyway.
>>
>> At least I know there is a chance. ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>
> A single USB thumb drive for $20 would likely hold every floppy he
> ever made, and maybe 10-20 times more. Why waste time making & sorting
> through CDs, etc?
>
> - Mark
>
>
Hmmmm, super point. May suggest that. I got to boot something to see
what this rig has in it. It may be a older system. I'm pretty sure I
saw USB tho.
I bet USB has a better life span than floppies too.
Dale
:-) :-)
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale [this message]
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman
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