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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:52:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F270317.40008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120129232327.65627718@osagesoftware.com>

David Relson wrote:
> 
>> My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop
>> horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a
>> front-panel (7-segment LED)  display between "4.77" and "8.00"
>>
>> And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")...
>>
>> And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite...
>>
>> As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood...
>>
>> Rgds,
> 
> You mean those small floppies?  Remember the big 8 inchers?
> 
> In the early days, putting a computer together took more than a screw
> driver.  Remember soldering irons and PC board kits with discrete
> components?  I do believe I still have an S-100 bus machine in my attic.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 
> 


I still have my breedboard.  You know, the thing you run the traces with
wires with.  Heck, I got a couple small ones that still have circuits on
them.  One is a temp circuit that turns a fan on when it gets above a
certain temp.

I think my pump controller is still out there too.  We used to have well
water out here.  It was nasty so we had a HUGE filter.  I'm talking
truck size filter.  It held about 2,000 gallons of water if you take out
for the filter media.

Dang, that has been a while back there.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 20:54 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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