5Mb, and 5 min to spin up...
Remember watching the lights dim when you turned it on?
Chuck Bartosch wrote:
Yeah, I remember getting my first one. Felt guilty as hell splurging
on that 10 MB version instead of the 5 MB-or instead of just using the
perfectly fine second floppy drive. My (now ex-) wife was very
supportive though...and said "oh, you should get it". So I did.
Graduate students only made like $2/hour back then. Unless you counted
all 90 hours we were expected to put in. In that case it was a bit
less per hour...
...too bad the kids had to starve though to pay for that first hard
drive...
Chuck
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Robert West wrote:
10mb hard drive? What the heck would you have that would take up
that much
room? Overindulgence in the high tech goodies, I'm afraid. You
need to
rethink your priorities.
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You got 5.25" floppies. We havent upgraded from the 8" units!
Considered cassette tapes but now thinking about dropping floppies &
tape and going straight to a winchester hard drive. I hear they are up
to 10MB!
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Robert West<[email protected]
wrote:
We upgraded our systems a few years ago. We ran abacus 1.0 for
years but
it
got to where we were having to add more rows of wooden balls and I
kept
losing my place. So, we opened up the wallet and plunked down 6
bucks (I
was able to talk them down from 7) for the recent IBM ps/2 running
PC-DOS
3.2 and SuperCalc on dual 5.25" floppies. We have no need for 640k
and
frankly I wasn't about to spend the additional 75 cents the thrift
store
salesperson wanted to charge us. Running with 384k seems to do the
job
for
us. I looked at windows 286 but I wasn't sure how long that
company would
be around so we just saved the cash.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:wireless-
[email protected]] On
Behalf Of RickG
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:02 PM
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LOL! Did you have to upgrade from DOS1.1 to 3.2 so the OS will see
memory above 640k? When you need multi-tasking, you can do a
technology leapfrog from Windows 286 to 3.1!
-RickG
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Robert West<[email protected]
wrote:
We use a Sextant and a compass to do our site surveys at night.
No need
for
such fancy foo-foo apps! The sextant is all a man will ever need
and
then
some! We then plug the numbers we get into our IBM ps/2 computer
running
DOS 3.2 and viola! Our exact position give or take a couple of
miles.
Fellow Luddites, rise up and cast off this oppressive technology!
(But
leave my internets alone!)
Bob-
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[email protected]] On
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:12 AM
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Any one has used the pUniverse App?
You just point it to the sky and it puts a realtime image overlay
0f
all the stars...
How I wish I had a similar app for my towers!!!
Site Surveys would be a piece of cake!
Gino A. Villarini
[email protected]
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145
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[email protected]] On
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:07 AM
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Yep, we all have iPhones as well. The GPS/Compass built in makes it
easier for them to find towers/repeaters. Also, during Site
Surveys,
they have the exact GPS coordinates of where the test was done.
Regards,
Chuck Hogg
Shelby Broadband
502-722-9292
[email protected]
http://www.shelbybb.com
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Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:03 PM
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This might sound off-the-wall, but you could do a lot worse than
pick
an iPhone. The GPS in it works really very well, compass and all.
In terms of ruggedness, one of my staff members dropped his iPhone
from a tower 110' up. Stupid, I know, but he was trying to talk to
the
guy on the ground. Anyway, the phone survived the fall after he put
the pieces back together. It does have a small dent. But he didn't
even have to bring it back in to Apple tech support.
Oh, if anyone was wondering, turns out that battery IS
removable ;-).
Anyway, we've been so pleased with the iPhone we bought every single
staff member an iPhone last year-even the book keeper.
Chuck
On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Robert West wrote:
I'm finally getting rid of my Delorme Earthmate GPS unit. It has
served me
well these past 10 years................. I will certainly miss
having to
boot up my laptop, plug the thing into the serial port of my OLD
laptop
because the newer ones do not have the serial port and to use that
USB to
serial adapter is more fun that I could handle.... Then hope and
pray that
the batteries in the Earthmate are still good for I always forget
to
check
before I go out............ But with that said, I need a
replacement.
I've been looking at some small Garmin all weather units but they
seem to
stress geo-caching and hiking. If I had time for that, it may
get my
attention, but I own a small business that I started because I
needed to be
more flexible with my time. Working 80 hours+ a week is about as
flexible
as it gets so no, I do not have time for that sort of crazy, high
on
life
sort of living.
I simply need a GPS that I won't break (or be too badly damaged)
when I drop
it off a 70 foot AP (it will happen, trust me), that will not be
ruined when
I forget it on the top of the same AP and go home and it just
happens to
rain overnight, can be recharged in the van and will give me the
two
pieces
of information I really desire......... My location coordinates
and
how
high I am. Someone else can mess with all those other functions,
I'd have
to give it to my 4 year old to figure that stuff out anyhow, I just
need to
know where and how high.
Anyone have a good recommendation on a handheld GPS unit? (I guess
I could
have just said one line but it's not as fun)
Thanks in advance.
Robert West
Just Micro Digital Services Inc.
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