Chatting about old technology reminded me of the old days when we had to use TSR programs like Borland Sidekick to get around the 640Mb memory limit. Oh how times have changed!!
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: 17 November 2016 14:28 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives Wow - a piece of computing history that's still operational and running. Kudos!!! Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 4:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives Funnily enough, I still have a 20Mb ... yes 20Mb Seagate RLL drive running in a 286 with 128Kb (Kb NOT Mb) of memory running MsDos 3.0 and stacker software to make the 20Mb look like 40Mb!! All it does is simply routes comms packets from the Radio Amateur network onto my LAN. It has been turned on almost continuously since 1986 and never faltered apart from a couple of mains outages. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 17 November 2016 09:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives I've blown up a 300MB drive when installing it, back when that was a seriously big drive, but that's it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, at 09:37 AM, Paul Hill wrote: > On 16 November 2016 at 21:01, > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it > > (before disaster strikes it)? > > I don't think I've ever had a drive I personally own die. > Still got a 9Gb SCSI drive running in my Amiga 4000 :-) > > -- > Paul > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
