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Skriven 2006-12-20 14:01:00 av George Vandervort
     Kommentar till en text av Tom Walker
Ärende: My New Fast Computer
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Hello Tom!
Please excuse the Typose as I think I aquired you typing style? :-))

Wednesday December 20 2006 13:49, George Vandervort wrote to Tom Walker:

 GV> Hello Tom!
 GV>
 GV> You are Right on the 8" Floppies,
 GV>
 GV> I had a 16k Radio Schack Moddel one, that I had to buy the
 GV> 32k Expansion box in order to hook up the 8" Floppy and connect the
 GV> $300.00 300 Baud Acustical Coupled Modem, which I quickly Upgraded to
 GV> a 1200 baud Modem when it came available..
 GV>
 GV> The 8" Floppy moder and Fan were Very Loud..
 GV> The first 5.1/4" Floppies were 189k single sided and I bought a Square
 GV> Notcher tool that let you Notch the left side of the Floppy to record
 GV> on both sided of the Floppy, they used to call that a Flippy..
 GV>
 GV> I believe the next generation was a 360k 5.25" Floppy that recoded on
 GV> both sides, and Radio Shack sold for $495.00 each, and if you Sneezed
 GV> on it ot carried it home on your car seat, the head would get out of
 GV> alignment, and you needed a Special Disk and Assiloscope to re-align
 GV> the Heads again..
 GV>
 GV> Those were the Days..  :-))
 GV>
 GV> Have a Merry Xmas..
 GV>
 GV>
 GV> Wednesday December 20 2006 09:08, TOM WALKER wrote to JAY EMRIE:
 GV>
 JE>>> I forgot about the Win95 bit. You are correct.
 JE>>> Hmmm? Lets see:
 TW>>
 JE>>> First was the 10" (??) Floppy.
 JE>>> Then 5 1/4" floppy.
 JE>>> Then 3 1/2" floppy in various incarnations.
 JE>>> Then Then CDs in various incarnations.
 JE>>> Then USB drives.
 JE>>> Then CF cards and cousins.
 TW>>
 JE>>> I wonder what next and when?
 TW>>
 TW>> As I  recall the First Floppy was an 8 inch. But a dual set was
 TW>> in a Standard Rack Mount and as my associate at the VA used to
 TW>> say was a "Pants Spliter" to remove and reinstall. In fact the
 TW>> last one we took out of service the wanted to take home for soem
 TW>> reason. -+- þ SLMR 2.1a þ This note from El Cajon California USA
 TW>> + Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)
 GV>
 GV>
 GV> Regards,
 GV> George Vandervort
 GV> InterNet EMail: georgev@austin.rr.com
 GV> Tech Support: http://home.austin.rr.com/llr/spa/
 GV>
 GV> 'Using yesterday's software to create tomorrow's problems today'
 GV>
 GV>
 GV> ...Fer sell cheep: IBM spel chekker. Wurks grate.
 GV> ... the Beatles said it best, Obla-Dee, Obla-Daa, Life Goes On...
 GV> -+- GoldED/W32 3.0.1
 GV>  + Origin: Bill Gates does my Windows (FidoNet 1:382/8)


Regards,
George Vandervort
InterNet EMail: georgev@austin.rr.com
Tech Support: http://home.austin.rr.com/llr/spa/

'Using yesterday's software to create tomorrow's problems today'


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