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Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE delete after reboot, exclusion range

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DMcCunney wrote:
> On 8/11/2015 8:23 PM, Nil wrote:
>> On 11 Aug 2015, choro <choro@tvco.net> wrote in
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>>
>>> IF and that's a big IF those floppies still work!
>>
>> True, dat. I've got a big box of floppies in the back of the closet. A
>> few years ago I went through maybe half of the box, and maybe half of
>> those couldn't be read. The ones that could be read and that I thought
>> might have something of value on them I transferred to CD-R. I probably
>> needn't have bothered. I should probably go ahead and toss out the
>> whole box of floppies.
>
> Back in the day, there were lengthy discussions about what brand to buy
> if you wanted to put the floppies on a shelf and still read them in five
> years.  Dysan was the gold standard.
>
>> 1.44 MB seemed like quite a lot or room at one time!
>
> In the MSDOS days, it was.  There was also a freeware utility that would
> format floppies to even higher capacity, though you couldn't read them
> without that utility.
>
> I've still got a number of 3.5" and 5.25" floppies.  I even have a combo
> half height floppy drive that reads both types.  Alas, the last time I
> had to change motherboards in the machine it's in, it broke it.
> Previously, the two drives were seen as A: and B:, with a jumper you set
> on the drive to determine which was seen as which.  With the new
> motherboard, only A: was seen, and I'd have to pull the drive and reset
> the jumper depending on which kind of floppy I wanted to read.
> ______
> Dennis

I've still got a 3.5" drive on this Dell XP computer.   And it's come in 
handy on a few occasions, too!

I seem to remember the original IBM PC's coming with two 360KB, 5.25" 
drives. (It might have been 180 KB even before that, but I can't recall 
now).

Remember when we thought 256K of RAM was "bountiful"?   I think the original 
IBM PC started out with 64K, but again, my memory may be off.

And I got rid of my VIC-20, with "6583 bytes free", a long time ago.  :-) 

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Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE   delete after reboot, exclusion range micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-08-10 08:02 -0400
  Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE   delete after reboot, exclusion range "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2015-08-10 17:55 +0200
    Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE delete after reboot, exclusion range DMcCunney <dennis.mccunney@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 19:36 -0400
    Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE   delete after reboot, exclusion range micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-08-10 20:55 -0400
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        Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE delete after reboot, exclusion range Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2015-08-11 13:58 -0400
          Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE delete after reboot, exclusion range DMcCunney <dennis.mccunney@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:02 -0400
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