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 1Rrg6u-00071Q-Bn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:32:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CC18E0828; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EF2E079E for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com ([74.125.82.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rrg48-00490w-Eg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:52 +0700 Received: by werb10 with SMTP id b10so3494364wer.40 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:29:48 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.216.135.142 with SMTP id u14mr1652851wei.5.1327886988082; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:29:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.83.12 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.83.12 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:29:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> <20120130020254.2aabef2a@khamul.example.con> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:47 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636ef039639ffa704b7b4c8a4 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 1d8f0bde-8676-4d9b-8786-a412235d94e9 X-Archives-Hash: f391886783cbfab11ffaf5ad126e3825 --001636ef039639ffa704b7b4c8a4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt 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, --001636ef039639ffa704b7b4c8a4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


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@gmai= l.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&qu= ot; 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 i= t
> 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)<= br> > a Celeron 300.
>

My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big de= sktop horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggle= s a front-panel (7-segment LED)=C2=A0 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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