Thanks for the conversation

[egawtry]

CPUWizard,

Thanks for the conversation in the other thread in the OS forun. It kinda grew didn't it?

Apologies to Sid and Peej who got upset about it being "in the wrong place".

-Erik

[Siddhartha]

No problem (we didn't get upset either - we've got to keep people on track, else the OP will).... If you guys need posts from that thread to come in here, let us know...

(However, if those posts come here, they will get sorted in chronological order... So, the one above wont remain at the top any more... )

Else, just continue here...

[TheCPUWizard]

CPUWizard,

Thanks for the conversation in the other thread in the OS forun. It kinda grew didn't it?

Apologies to Sid and Peej who got upset about it being "in the wrong place".

-Erik

Erik,

You are quite welcome...

btw: Most of that would have been done with Private Messages..... IF YOU HAD THEM ENABLED!!!!

[dglienna]

I was going to add some comments, but then, it would have spiraled down in flames. Best to start one here.

First GIANT computing machine that I saw (that needed it's own power source running!) that ran a local credit card that was accepted around town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5410

[egawtry]

It's funny, but I was using mainframes before anything else (my elementary school had a bunch of Silent-700s that were connected to the University of Minnesota's computing center), but I didn't actually physically see a mainframe until 1985 when I took some college courses out of high school. I was so impressed by a VAX 11/780 and a Micom datalink - it is funny to think that my PDA has more power and memory than that old beast did. I still have an old Mag tape sitting on the shelf with no way to read it anymore. I remember the 7MB hard drive was as big as a desk.

The beauty of computing back then was that if someone was going to use a computer they actually had to learn something! It drastically cut down on the user=idiot factor. (There - that should touch off a conversation!)

-Erik

[TheCPUWizard]

It drastically cut down on the user=idiot factor. (There - that should touch off a conversation!)

-Erik

Shouldn't that be '=="

If the magtape is a 600-2400 ft reel 9track at 1600 or 6250 BPI, I can still read it. My other drive (which will also handle 800BPI and 3200BPI) is down, and probably will not be repaired in the near future....

[egawtry]

CPUWizard,

As much as I would like to take a look at what I wrote 20+ years ago for curiousity's sake, I can't afford to send it to New York.

If I remember right, the big program on it was a trashcan utility to replace rm. It was heavily used at my collage after I wrote it, which got the sysop upset because he kept running out of disk space because everyone kept their trashcans full. I could probably rewrite it in about an half an hour now (took me a week then).

Talking about old media, I still have boxes full of 5.25" floppies that I don't have a drive for either. I wish someone would sell a USB 5.25" drive. Then I could have my nephew scan all my old disks into IMG files for long term storage.

-Erik

[dglienna]

Everybody sells one. I had to buy one for a Toshiba Laptop that had RAID on the motherboard. The universal one that I had borrowed worked for the first F6, but as it was starting XP for the first time, it asked for the diskette again, but refused to see the drive this time!

It was for a client. Since then I've used nLite to slipstream drivers to a dvd

[egawtry]

Who is everybody? I can easily find a USB 3.5" floppy drive, but searching online I still don't find a USB 5.25" floppy. I can find a few mountable drives, but that's it.

If you know where one is being sold, please give me the link.

Thanks,
-Erik

[GremlinSA]

Everybody sells one. I had to buy one for a Toshiba Laptop that had RAID on the motherboard.

A 5 1/4 Floppy drive ???? on a laptop with DVD ????

A 3 1/2 Stiffy i've seen, but Floppy's went out long time ago..