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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