Saw a friend using 8” floppies at work with the CP/M operating system back in the 80s, but I was already using 360kb floppies and humongous 10mb disk packs in DEC RA60 racks as big as a washing machine. Also had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get to work! LOL
Steve Cain Sr. System Administrator From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard McClary Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro There could have been a swap file on that 360Kb floppy. (I am too young to have experienced the 180Kb floppies. Never worked with the 5” disks, either.) -- richard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro Then he either got a CD OM drive awfully early… or was using an rather old machine with one. ;) -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro What high memory? This system only had 128K J -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro No other device drivers? At least you could have loaded the CD driver in to high mem… -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro CONFIG.SYS rem MSDOS multiboot menu example rem config.sys [Menu] Menuitem=novell, Boot to NetWare Menuitem=dos, Boot to DOS with CDROM driver Menudefault=novell, 15 [common] Files=60 Buffers=60 [novell] [dos] Device=C:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:CD001 AUTOEXEC.BAT rem AUTOEXEC.BAT Prompt $P$G Goto %config% :novell cd\nwserver server -nl goto END :dos mscdex /d:CD001 goto END :END - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: Oh- CompuServe, DOS, Window 3, and Windows 95... However did we manage it all? :-D On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Free, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: For you WJR- http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/welcome-windows-nt-magazine <http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/welcome-windows-nt-magazine> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro I suppose my next question is what about access to past content? Kind of irksome, and sad. I've had a subscription since ~1996. - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Cain, Steven <[email protected]> wrote: I got the same email myself about 45 minutes ago, no explanation given. I guess they weren’t getting enough digital subscriptions to continue. Steve Cain Sr. System Administrator From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro So I just got a rather disturbing email that WinIT Pro is no longer publishing digital (and already ceased dead tree) content. Anyone happen to know what happened/why? - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 ________________________________ PG&E is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/ ________________________________ -- -- Espi (via mobile) The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof.
