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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 13 Feb 2008 16:10:16
Message: <23n6r31dh9t13vf2bg5lokuk0a8uishpra@4ax.com>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:48:25 -0500, Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:

>
>I used to repair typesetting equipment that used 8" floppy drives. 

So did I but it used paper tape :)

> We used to have to break out an oscilloscope and Dysan disk occasionally to align
them.  Those were the days, huh?

I remember doing that too :)

Regards
	Stephen


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 13 Feb 2008 16:11:07
Message: <76n6r39vggaatn1lbd9323tcpfkg7pivj2@4ax.com>
On 13 Feb 2008 14:54:08 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>
>I remember doing backups on a PDP-11 as well once upon a time.  I think I 
>was 12. :-)

LOL
It must be your birthday at the end of this month :)

Regards
	Stephen


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 13 Feb 2008 17:43:04
Message: <47b37278@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:11:02 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 13 Feb 2008 14:54:08 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I remember doing backups on a PDP-11 as well once upon a time.  I think
>>I was 12. :-)
> 
> LOL
> It must be your birthday at the end of this month :)

September. :-)

Jim


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From: Phil Cook
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 14 Feb 2008 06:32:52
Message: <op.t6iibzr6c3xi7v@news.povray.org>
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<andrel> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
<Orchid> Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
<andrel> I think you are referring to the 5 1/4 inch ones

<-- FlipC has quit (sickos)

http://www.bash.org/?207373

couldn't resist sorry.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com


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From: Brian Elliott
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 14 Feb 2008 07:39:54
Message: <47b4369a@news.povray.org>
"Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message 
news:op.t6iibzr6c3xi7v@news.povray.org...
> --> FlipC has joined #povray
>
> <andrel> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
> <Orchid> Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
> <andrel> I think you are referring to the 5 1/4 inch ones
>
> <-- FlipC has quit (sickos)
>
> http://www.bash.org/?207373
>
> couldn't resist sorry.
>
> -- 
> Phil Cook

LOL  Don't ever change your sense of humour.  It's just perfect as it is. 
:-)


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 14 Feb 2008 14:47:59
Message: <47B49B01.9030603@hotmail.com>
Phil Cook wrote:
> --> FlopC has joined #povray
> 
> <andrel> BTW last week I found an 8 inch floppy, anyone remember those?
> <Orchid> Ooo, are those the "floppy" ones?
> <andrel> I think you are referring to the 5 1/4 inch ones
> 
> <-- FlopC has quit (sickos)
> 
> http://www.bash.org/?207373
> 
> couldn't resist sorry.
> 

OMG I have become a character in a bash.org spoof.


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 14 Feb 2008 14:48:37
Message: <47b49b15@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:

> OMG I have become a character in a bash.org spoof.

Actually... yeah, that's quite bad...

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Old technology
Date: 16 Feb 2008 04:25:24
Message: <47b6ac04$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> Have you ever seen a Laser Disk?  I used to watch videos on them.  
>> They were basically 12" CDs.
> 
> Yeah. But analogue, appparently. No, I've never seen one, only heard 
> about them...
> 

They were AWSOME!

They held movies, still pictures, music, and text documents - all on the 
same disc!

The DVD is basically a shrink of it to CD size.

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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