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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