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Ant
Apr 13, 2023, 9:30:49 PM4/13/23
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My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows
3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even use them!
:O
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3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even use them!
:O
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"Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow." --Psalm 144:4. 7.5h of Z after a slammy winter (still is 2day) hump day with 5h of Z, issues, colony, etc. :) Frontier Day! Picard S3 still rocks.
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Rod Speed
Apr 14, 2023, 1:40:37 PM4/14/23
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Ant <a...@zimage.comant> wrote
> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks
I have those, 5.25" IBM PC and Commodore 64 floppys
and 8" DEC floppys.
> (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows 3.1,
I have those and OS2 as well.
> drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s.
> I don't even use them!
Me neither. I still have all the drives and still
have machines that can use them including
the Commodre 64 drive.
> :O
This is no laughing matter antboy.
> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks
and 8" DEC floppys.
> (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows 3.1,
> drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s.
> I don't even use them!
have machines that can use them including
the Commodre 64 drive.
> :O
This is no laughing matter antboy.
Marco Moock
Apr 15, 2023, 1:49:15 PM4/15/23
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Am 14.04.2023 um 01:30:37 Uhr schrieb Ant:
> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS,
> Windows 3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even
> use them! :O
I still have them, but I never used them for real productive work.
> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS,
> Windows 3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even
> use them! :O
I got the first one in 2012.
Jeff Jonas
May 1, 2023, 6:07:17 AM5/1/23
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>> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks
> I have those, 5.25" IBM PC
> and Commodore 64 floppys and 8" DEC floppys.
I volunteer at the NJ Vintage Computer Museum
> I have those, 5.25" IBM PC
> and Commodore 64 floppys and 8" DEC floppys.
(a member of the Vintage Computer Federation)
https://vcfed.org/
so all sizes and formats are still in use.
Admittedly, many well used systems
use solid-state drive emulators such as Fujinet
https://fujinet.online/
I personally still have 8" DSDD drives running my Z80 CP/M system.
--Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
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