From: "Robert Comer" 

Ahhh. 

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Bob Comer 


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:a0941a.769c51{at}harborwebs.com...
>I meant, the last time I CHECKED them was around 1998.  I definitely still
>had
> the machine with the combo drive at that point.
>
>> From: "Robert Comer" 
>>> (probably around 1998)
>> 1988 more likely, but they were available many years before that.
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>> "Ellen K"  wrote in message
>> news:a09418.75a83b{at}harborwebs.com...
>>> 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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