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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:57:14
Message-Id: CAA2qdGX5u77uO3tYNdUbEx0Oi2ZV-8RDs7UUC94Arba5JaW7gQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question) by Pandu Poluan
1 On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
7 > > >
8 > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop
9 horizontal
10 > > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel
11 (7-segment
12 > > > LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00"
13 > > >
14 > > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")...
15 > > >
16 > > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite...
17 > > >
18 > > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood...
19 > >
20 > > PC, XT or AT?
21 > >
22 > > Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz
23 386..
24 > >
25 >
26 > Not sure...
27 >
28 > It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086...
29 >
30
31 Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20
32 MB hard disk.
33
34 (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM)
35
36 Rgds,

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