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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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Phantom Of The Floppera
Got nothing to do with gun, but, for some computer savvy oldies, this is amazing!!
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Ominivision1 Super Member
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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hahaha. that was neat.
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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I used to work with those 5ΒΌ inch floppies - a 1mb hard drive was "state of the art" technology back then.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15718 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:10 am Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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My 5 1/4 is in the state of the FART just before I replace them with 3 1/2 inches.
Remember the 8 inch stuff?
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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Funny story, being back in college I am apparently a old fart according to the students, seeing as the first time I went to college, all of our projects and tests for CAD/CAM were submitted on floppies, now they are all submitted on CD-R's and USB keys. I shouldn't have told them that.
Heck my first USB key was "state of the art" in highschool, the first 128 MEGAbyte drives to come out, at a price of 150$. Operating systems didn't even have built in support for generic USB based flash drives, I needed to carry around a floppy to install the drivers for it before being able to use it.
Now I carry around a aluminum encased 8GB USB key with software running right from the drive and on the fly full disk 256-bit AES encryption, how times change.
Dimitri
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Ominivision1 Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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Dimitri:
I too spent 4 years in college and now days with my 3rd oldest graduating from college, it's no longer any type of hardware base storage.........it's in the cloud now.
Also, Linux had support for usb, floppy, cd's and dvd, with kernel 2.2.0 back in 1999. I should know because I contributed part of the code to the kernel back then. If you wanted to mount an unknown device. Read...
/bin/less /var/log/dmesg will show what the kernel detected/
/bin/mount will show what is mounted
/bin/cat /etc/fstab will show what it may know how to use
/sbin/fdisk -l
or
/bin/cat /proc/partitions
(or more specifically
/bin/egrep '[sh]d[a-z]+$' /proc/partitions
or for the newbies........"fdisk -l" to list all disks and their partitions.
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Pumpkinslinger Super Member
Joined: Sep 22, 2007 Posts: 5002 Location: NC foothills
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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The first data storage device I ever used was a punch card...
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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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Pumpkinslinger wrote: |
The first data storage device I ever used was a punch card... |
Back then i was the office boy who file them boxes of punch cards and tapes away.
Yep, this forum is FULL of old farts.
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Ominivision1 Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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gelandangan wrote: |
Yep, this forum is FULL of old farts. |
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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Ominivision1 wrote: |
Also, Linux had support for usb, floppy, cd's and dvd, with kernel 2.2.0 back in 1999. |
I was 15 when I started to use Linux, came in a neat box with the 2.4.20 kernel packaged by SuSE 8.2 "Professional". The Ethernet drivers wouldn't work, on my new nForce2 motherboard (remember the old Abit NF7-S that had all of those capacitor problems?), so I went to a internet cafe and downloaded the drivers to a CDR. But other then that I never had a problem with Linux.
I used Linux almost exclusively for 5 years after that, till I started to use CAD/CAM and had to go to Windows. Now I use a live CD for my Linux needs. Also allows me to keep a portable OS for use on other people's computer's that I use, so I don't have to deal with their annoying settings.
When taking my USB key to my highschool or anywhere else I had fond memories of carrying a floppy disk to install the drivers, as Windows and Mac at the time could not support it directly.
Dimitri
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PaulS Super Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Phantom Of The Floperra |
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I have a computer with two 160K (not 180 - 160K) floppy drives and the discs that contain the 4 OSs that I can use with it. This was back when hard drives were used for main frames and not personal computers - the first PC hard drive I had was so big it had to be two drives - one at 33meg and the other at 27 meg. It was pointless to have any more than 1 meg of RAM because there was no OS that could access it. I got my first computer in 1978. You had to program to do anything other than play games with it - so I learned to program.
One of the first programs was a reloading database - go figure...
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