From: Mike '/m' 


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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