And the floppy disk notchers that would make a double-sided floppy out of a single. And to do the same for a 3 ½ you just needed a soldering iron with a small tip!
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro > I do remember installing a 1 MB Floppy Drive on a Commodore 64 1MB Floppy? Interesting… they had the 1581 800K 3.5” floppies made by Commodore…, and outfits like CMD sold interfaces for hard drives… with 5 & 10MB units being the most common. I never heard of a 1MB floppy… or a HDD of that size either. -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rod Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 3:29 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Young Whipper Snapper! ☺ -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:28 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro Hey man… I was 20 when PC’s were released with DOS! -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro File age yes...-sc age, no. ;) - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That’s 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 drive… -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:43 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro 20? Bah! - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The 20 yr old geek in me can’t help it. ;) -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:33 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro It plainly states this is an "example." - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: No other device drivers? At least you could have loaded the CD driver in to high mem… -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:41 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: For you WJR- http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/welcome-windows-nt-magazine From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:25 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:55 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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) -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
