Re: AOL Disks
Bob Kaplow
> [For the occassional hermit out there without a mail drop, America
> Online has been distributing "10 Hours Free" disks like crazy. They
> come with magazines, they come by themselves, they are attached to
> trade journals etc. I have about ten of them now. I have never
> expressed an interest in AOL but these disks keep mounting up.]
Back in the days of megabytes instead of gigabytes and terabytes, I used to
try to explain what a gigabyte was when I gave data center tours. A floor to
ceiling stack of AOL floppies is about one gigabyte. I then set out to build
a gigabyte stack of AOL floppies. I got about half way to my goal (695) when
they switched from floppies to CDs :-(
But I still get to have some fun at their expense. I build model rockets,
and use the AOL CDs on many of them for cutting centering rings. I've made
rockets that are nothing but a tube and 1-5 AOL CDs. I don't know how much
longer this will be online, but here's a 5 AOL "RAID5" CD rocket under
power...
http://www.nerys.com/naramlive/naramlive/02saturday/DSCN1089.JPG
BTW, if any one would like to contribute to the gigabyte AOL FLOPPY
collection, email me...
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Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)! <<<
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Sir, if I was building a weapon of mass destruction,
you wouldn't be able to find it.