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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