Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: I used to play Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing.  Ha!  We entered angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent You may be interested in this Python remake of Gorilla:

Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info 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)

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; I never managed to fill that drive.) I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of memory but

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) I can't imagine not being able to remember the figure, giving the difference of 300%. ;-) Our

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Nils Andresen
Guys, I feel with you - I was there, too. But please stop scaring the youngsters. Nils 2012/1/30 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe