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| From: | Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol | ||
| Date: | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol by Mike Edenfield |
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| 1 | > Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it |
| 2 | > actually work: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Quote |
| 8 | > And you certainly don't want to make the user go through this |
| 9 | > training session when they unpack their computer on Christmas |
| 10 | > morning. "Thank you for using Window 95. Before we begin, please |
| 11 | > insert a floppy disk in drive A:." |
| 12 | |
| 13 | I wish they would have tought of that when they forced users to activate |
| 14 | and/or register Windows. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | "Thank you for using Window XP. Before we begin, please enter your 100 |
| 17 | digit serial number" |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol | James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
| RE: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol | Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> |