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]
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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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