On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:21:54 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Anyone remember the really old drives that needed to be told to park their
>heads? I seem to remember having to do that to my 286's 20MB HD.
>
"remember" ? I still *use* one... in an old Amstrad-1640 PC (8MHz 8086 CPU)
Its 20MB HD is so slow, the maximum transfer rate is 72 KB/s (yes, 72 and
yes KB/s), which means it would take almost 2 minutes to write an 8 MB file
to disk. :-)
uuh... It's getting very OT now... back to Mersenne stuff:
I have a question regarding the primenet server: Is it possible to 'force'
the server to assign a specific free(!) exponent to me? I added some free
exponents for factoring to the worktodo file and did a manual communication
with the server afterwards and I got the error message, that the exponents
aren't assigned to me... any idea?
Siegmar
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