From: Ellen K. 

Did you try them to see if they were still good?

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:26:14 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote
in message :

>
>I was just visiting my fire-resistant box upstairs for the first time in
>a few years.  Buried in the back of it was a set of 5 1/4 inch floppies
>- Microsoft's OS/2 1.0 SDK.  There were 8 or so floppies.
>
> /m
>
>On 26 Feb 2006 08:17:36 GMT, Ellen K  wrote:
>
>>"single-sided"?   Oh boy is THAT a blast from the past...
>>
>>> From: Tim Boyer 
>>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:35:05 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>>> Ok, so basically Acrobat Reader (free version) is just Notepad on
steroids.
>>>> It does display formatted documents, great but you can't
edit anything.
It's
>>>> a glorified file viewer that views only ONE type of file.
>>>>
>>>> So today I was talking to an old friend about the mini
systems we used to
>>>> run, the biggest of which had 4 massive 64MB drives on it.
>>>>
>>>> As I'm talking to him I'm patching acrobat reader, that
patch being patch
>>>> 7.0.7 and it's 40MB (that's FORTY MEG) long.. For a patch for a file
viewer?
>>>>
>>>> Somehow, somewhere, things have gone very very wrong..
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>Shit, ghostscript does Postscript _and_ pdf - and is under 4
meg total.  And
m
>>> Unix word processor of choice - joe - will still fit on a floppy.
>>> 5-1/4".
>>> Low density.
>>> Single sided.
>>> --
>>> tim boyer
>>> tim{at}denmantire.com

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