Re: [SLE] Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0

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James Knott

3 Nov 2005 3 Nov '05

01:21

Kai Ponte wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 1:44 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

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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.

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James Knott

3 Nov 3 Nov

01:24

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Sorry about this message. It escaped from my computer. James Knott wrote:

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Kai Ponte wrote:

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Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 1:44 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

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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)

Doug McGarrett

03:25

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At 08:20 PM 11/2/2005 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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Kai Ponte wrote:

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Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 1:44 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

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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

Kai Ponte

13:27

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 07:25 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: <snip>

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Got to use those on a display writer. As for the cp/m, I still have my TRS-80, Model I.

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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. . . .

Wow, that predates me. :) The first system I got my hands on was a TRS-80 Model I when I was in fifth grade. Started doing BASIC on it. In my high school, we had a few of the IBM word processors, which I thought were very cool. I did play around a bit with Kaypro machines, which used CP/M like the TRS-80. I very quickly moved on to my cool new Apple IIe, with a roarin' 128MB RAM. That's where I picked up some Pascal, which only served to help me write games.

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-- 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

Virus? What's that? Oh, you must be using that OTHER operating system. :) (I have AGV on my Win2K system.) Which reminds me. I need to figure out how to setup the spam guard on KMail... -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

Allen

14:52

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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:27:01AM -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 07:25 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: <snip>

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Got to use those on a display writer. As for the cp/m, I still have my TRS-80, Model I.

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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. . . .

Wow, that predates me. :) The first system I got my hands on was a TRS-80 Model I when I was in fifth grade. Started doing BASIC on it. In my high school, we had a few of the IBM word processors, which I thought were very cool. I did play around a bit with Kaypro machines, which used CP/M like the TRS-80.

I very quickly moved on to my cool new Apple IIe, with a roarin' 128MB RAM. That's where I picked up some Pascal, which only served to help me write games.

You got an Apple II to use 128 MBs of RAM??????

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-- 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

Virus? What's that?

Oh, you must be using that OTHER operating system. :) (I have AGV on my Win2K system.)

Which reminds me. I need to figure out how to setup the spam guard on KMail...

-- kai www.perfectreign.com

linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Ian Marlier

14:58

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From: Allen On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:27:01AM -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 07:25 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:

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I very quickly moved on to my cool new Apple IIe, with a roarin' 128MB RAM. That's where I picked up some Pascal, which only served to help me write games.

You got an Apple II to use 128 MBs of RAM??????

I think he meant 128kB's ;-)

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