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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:47 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGVCGb9p5dW5LN2R2_-b-dA35n60U_V9TLrpvkJ+OZWgNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500
> > Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> an MFM controller
> >> >
> >> > Michael, I think you must be older than you look :p
> >>
> >> 28. Just got started earlier than most. Also "studied" history. :)
> >>
> >
> > So if you saw them when they were still new and shiny that means at the
> > time you must have been
> >
> > 2 years old!
> >
> > Child prodigy?
>
> I didn't see anything new and shiny until I had the money to buy it
> myself...Though we did get a Tandy RLX1000 when I was five or six.
> When I was (I think) 12, I spent my $200 in savings to buy most of a
> second-hand K6-200 when the original owner was upgrading to (I think)
> a Celeron 300.
>

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,

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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
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 [this message]
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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