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 1Rrrkf-0000Ct-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A718CE0B5B; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14404E0B14 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rrrhm-000n8o-Uk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:55:35 +0700 Received: by wgbdt11 with SMTP id dt11so3527526wgb.4 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:55:28 -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 10.180.90.225 with SMTP id bz1mr3326753wib.5.1327931727991; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.83.12 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.83.12 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120130093407.3f0e3f33@digimed.co.uk> References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> <20120130020254.2aabef2a@khamul.example.con> <20120130093407.3f0e3f33@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:55:27 +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=f46d043be006eed3df04b7bf32a1 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: 75c6322e-ebe3-4c1c-a6ef-71ef809baf77 X-Archives-Hash: ec9a44be23e064d5e57b50e918daa497 --f46d043be006eed3df04b7bf32a1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jan 30, 2012 4:39 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:47 +0700, Pandu Poluan 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" > > Did the switch do anything else, apart from change the numbers on the > front? > Well, it *did* change the speed from slow to not-that-slow :-P Do it several times back-to-back, and you'll lock the system to hardware reset ;-) Rgds, --f46d043be006eed3df04b7bf32a1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Jan 30, 2012 4:39 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:47 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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> > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin'= big desktop
> > horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that to= ggles a
> > front-panel (7-segment LED) =C2=A0display between "4.77"= ; and "8.00"
>
> Did the switch do anything else, apart from change the numbers on the<= br> > front?
>

Well, it *did* change the speed from slow to not-that-slow :-P

Do it several times back-to-back, and you'll lock the system to hard= ware reset ;-)

Rgds,

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