=> Subject: RE: [NF] 6GB pocket drive for $49.98 USD from Staples => => On Monday, December 04, 2006 1:56 PM Graham Brown wrote: => => >I was talking to the young 'uns about the good old days => when we had to => contend with 5 1/4 360k >floppies. Seems like a life time => ago doesn't it. => => I remember buying single sided disks and cutting the notch => out so the drive would use both sides. I don't how many => hours of my life was wasted on formatting floppies. => => >God I'm getting old, what have I done with my life... => => Enjoyed the journey I hope... => => David L. Crooks =>
Old you say? Ha ha. 8" floppies here, first used in 1971 or 1972 for loading microcode into some IBM peripheral controller that was as big as a phone booth. Phone booth? You remember those, right? And rebates? How much is your time worth? How much are you saving? How much have you lost when you add up all the time and trouble? Here is a riddle: What do rebates and vacuum cleaners have in common? B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
