> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul McNett > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 5:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How old is your oldest, viable DVD? > > I remember back in middle school, when I wanted to make copies of popular > software > for the Apple ][+, I had to use a program called Locksmith, and at the > specified time > adjust the head alignment of the floppy drive to be perfectly inside a > narrow spec. > Then Wizardry would copy and I could share it with all my friends. All one > of them, > since this was way before computing was cool. > > Paul
In college my senior year (1985) I talked one of my profs to let me do a self study year long project - I needed to bump up my GPA and it was going to be an almost certain "A" grade... Pretty cool project really - did a visual presentation on Orbital Kinematics that displayed all the planets on a log scale moving in time sequence... lots of hardness to overcome - had to approx a 9th order set of partial differential equations (translated: U.G.L.Y) into a workable algorithm that would run on an Apple II... Spent all year on that thing, dropped it off for him to review/grade and watched him set it on top of the external drive he had hooked up to his own machine... we went off to class, came back, and that damned disk would NOT be read on his machine... Somehow, can't remember why, but this one floppy was my only copy.... yepper -one whole year of work down the drain... Still got the A though... Thanks, Matthew Jarvis || Business Systems Analyst IT Department McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center 1460 G Street, Springfield, OR 97477 || Ph: 541-744-6092 || Fax: 541-744-6145 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain information that is Proprietary, Confidential, or legally privileged or protected. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information it contains. _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/69f310c05dd83c48a84ba3769ce1ecf80440e...@tntriexevs02.triadhospitals.net ** 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.
