At 08:20 PM 11/2/2005 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 1:44 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:
Right now, the laptop is hooked up to my corporate LAN and sharing my local comptuer's hard drive, thanks to Samba. (Let's hope the new CIFS doesn't cause all heck to break lose, when that gets released.) Most systems are coming through today with no floppies. My desktop system at work does not have a floppy, but does run SuSE 9.3 Professional. I just have not installed 10 on it.
Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
Got to use those on a display writer. As for the cp/m, I still have my TRS-80, Model I.
(didn't send to the list)
I built the Big Board in about 1982. I scrounged up used 8" drives for $250 each. (240K per disk!) I found a keyboard that originally had only upper-case output, and built a hardware converter out of TTL logic (not my strong suit--I'm an RF guy) and wrote an article for Micro Cornucopia on how to get better video definition. For the CPM driver for my daisy- wheel printer, I had to find someone who knew how to code in whatever language the thing understood. However, I learned and used Pascal on the machine. (Took a night course in it.) It also ran Basic and Word- Star, and I had the game with the twisty underground tunnels, etc. I thought this was wonderful! I even brought the machine to work and used it there for a while to do real work, with (mostly) programs that I wrote myself. Those were the days. . . . --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/156 - Release Date: 11/2/2005