Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["John R. Sowden" <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed November 2 2005 20:43, Chris Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:18 -0700, Dana J. Laude wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 November 2005 18:31, James Knott wrote:
> > > Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > > * James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> [11-02-05 19:13]:
> > > >> Anyone here remember 8" floppies?  Hard sectors?  CP/M?
> > > >
> > > > Wordstar
> >
> > Ah, the good old days!  Zenix, Esix, CP/M, low level formats, MFM,
> > RLL and the like.  I remember installing a 16550 Uart chip so I
> > could get the bbs up and running on a USRobotics HST modem.
> >
> > I had this one computer based on CP/M that was built like a frick'in
> > tank... I'm sure if you had two of these, you could drive you're car
> > up on em to change the oil.  I also had a ISA card for RLL drives
> > that would take a say 20MB hd and put it at around 40MB.  Can't
> > recall the name though.  And Wordstar, great program... and it
> > worked just fine off of Wyse terminals.  How about LANtastic? ;)
> >
> > Dana
>
> I certainly remember tape drives - though that would have been grade
> school - I still have an 8" diskette from my Navy days - I also remember
> he wonderful days of BBS and 1200 baud modems and using procomm to
> download 40kb of data (it took hours!) I stepped away from computing for
> a few years and low and behold jumpers were practically a thing of the
> past and memory was geater than storage ever used to be.
Don't throw away those hayes smart 1200 modems. we use them because our 
security system do not have real modems, instead they are created in 
software. so they are very slow (40-110 baud).  The newer modems don't go 
that slow.
-- 
John R. Sowden
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