From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RryEi-0006Wf-Vv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:54:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1961EE0789; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E419E0720 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnk1 with SMTP id k1so2485007ggn.40 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/VIKk110ExCW0FPusra/0HGTTzQi3AmADHvHf9sJfi0=; b=jNPpJg7WFtphktBNhKUBJ8F3+llkYuE7GXKslyUnJM8aSlBtUJ1d4PPefzIjzHub9S VTczh4cmvTdOzshx6fz9VbzF6vxk/9zCcy25M0mIBiie7DoSso5FRoKVfLzXT0NmFGay s3m4HB1JpCmQUE3L+sKblvH49GiboML2g1eF0= Received: by 10.101.54.2 with SMTP id g2mr8724222ank.49.1327956764761; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q29sm49260122anh.1.2012.01.30.12.52.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F270317.40008@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:52:39 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120120 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> <20120130020254.2aabef2a@khamul.example.con> <20120129232327.65627718@osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20120129232327.65627718@osagesoftware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fed815c9-75a2-46e5-8407-5f9a0c43232e X-Archives-Hash: ecee1f7d39d42c48a85166cad85685b2 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"