Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ian Marlier <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Field Insights
> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:07:35 +0200
> To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0
> 
> Ken Schneider wrote:
> 
>>> Anyone here remember 8" floppies?  Hard sectors?  CP/M?
>>> 
>> Yup. Used them at a shop I worked at to supply CNC data to a milling
>> machine that was running concurrent dos.
> 
> My first computer was a typewriter and it used to store data on sheets
> of paper.
> 
> Can you kids imagine that?

What's a typewriter?

Was that what they used to call 286's?

- Ian (born in the Carter Administration.  Barely.)