At one point I had a combo drive...

The reason I asked is that the last time I checked my old 5 1/4" Word
Perfect disks (probably around 1998) they were STILL GOOD!!!.

> From: Mike '/m' 
> Don't have a 5 1/4" drive to check.
> I'm planning a package for the Computer History Museum, I'm adding the
> floppies to the list, to accompany a Corvus OmniNet button....
> http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/corvus/
> http://www.computerhistory.org/
> /m
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:29:36 -0800, Ellen K. 
> wrote:
>> 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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