When I was in high school, we had a Xerox electronic typesetter. It took 8 inch, single sided floppies.
Also, my father was a printer/lithographer, and he had an Itek Typesetter that also took 8 inch, single sided floppies. They wanted $4,000 to come and install an additional floppy and upgrade the memory. Plus, the fonts were on a special glass, like an 1/4 portion of a circle. He could only typeset with four different fonts at any given time... AND those fonts were expensive! I do remember installing a 1 MB Floppy Drive on a Commodore 64. It used the IEE Interface and had a special interface board that went in the User Slot. You connected the cable to that board and then the drive. It looked like an oversized 1541 Disk Drive. That was pretty neat. I also remember when the old Seagate ST-225 came out. Used to have one, just as a conversation piece. Don't know what I did with it, though. Yup. 20 whole megabytes. And we were happy, dammit! We had something we could store our Wordstar documents on!!! We just couldn't move our desktop computers around, like you can a laptop, for fear that we might crash the drive. But it was 20Meg Hard Drive! Daniel On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Melvin Backus <[email protected]>wrote: > Young Whipper Snapper! 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 2:28 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro > > > > Hey manβ¦ I was 20 when PCβs were released with DOS! > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *William Robbins > *Sent:* Friday, April 18, 2014 2:24 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro > > > > File age yes...-sc age, no. ;) > > > > - WJR > πππ > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thatβs about the right era for those files, right? > > > > The 35 yr old geek in me is more concerned with getting the volume correct > on the Apple ][+ cassette tape driveβ¦ > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *William Robbins > *Sent:* Friday, April 18, 2014 10:43 AM > > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro > > > > 20? Bah! > > > > - WJR > πππ > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The 20 yr old geek in me canβt help it. ;) > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *William Robbins > *Sent:* Friday, April 18, 2014 10:33 AM > > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro > > > > It plainly states this is an "example." > > > > - WJR > πππ > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > No other device drivers? > > > > At least you could have loaded the CD driver in to high memβ¦ > > > > -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 > πππ > > > > 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 > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[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 > πππ > > > > 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 werenβt getting enough digital subscriptions to continue. > > > > > > *Steve Cain* > > Sr. System Administrator > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[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 > πππ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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) > > > > > > > > > -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]
