"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03 Dec 2001:
> I retired the summer after the first version of W-95 came out. We > mostly used Windows 3.1.1. at the four high schools were the only > ones allowed to try W-95. Am I remembering wrong but didn't the > very first version of W-95 actually come out in 93 or 94? I am > asking not stating as fact. so don't get wound up if I am wrong. > Anyway it gives you an idea of how long since I have looked at DOS. The first version of Windows 95 came out in 95 > > I used On-Track software to setup and initialize new Hard drives > when I had to replace Hard drives. Why not use FDISK? > > Everyone was using a utility called something like Drive Space or > Double Space that would let you hold 40megs of info on a 20 meg > hard drive. Using this utility though at the time, the hard drives > tended to fail in a short period of time and need replacing. Completely unrelated. First, Doublespace was a compression program. Saying a 20 meg drive could hold 40 megs was like saying a 40 meg file will zip to 20 megs. If you stored nothing but .exe files which don't tend to compress well on it, you would see a loss of space on the drive. Doublespace could not cause a drive to mechanically fail, any more than any other program that reads and writes to the disk can cause it to fail. > > I was replacing Floppy or Hard drives in DOS/Windows machines about > every two to three weeks. Then there was something wrong with the working environment. I have a floppy drive from '92 that is working perfectly fine still. I have two old Seagate hard drives of 428 and ~150 megs that both work fine. -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
