Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Godo news for the Mac ! Date: 9 May 2017 02:58:21 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <59094de0$0$60254$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net jqXtYpEe1dHj+Vs7SDH/pgO+9BFKoanuZwYuNMCUDRuW747TNq Cancel-Lock: sha1:JxHV4gEe5SDMVujGBo3ZBCzu2VE= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:106697 On 2017-05-08, Your Name wrote: > On 2017-05-08 20:12:58 +0000, Lewis said: >> In message Jolly Roger >> wrote: >>> Andre G. Isaak wrote: >>>> In article , >>>> Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You seem to have forgotten: ADB ports, SCSI ports, serial ports, >>>>> parallel ports, floppy drives, PDS slots, NuBus slots, oh my! Apple's >>>>> been taking toys away forever! Why on Earth are you still a customer?! >>>> >>>> I don't really care about SD cards, but I really wish they hadn't gotten >>>> rid of the DB-19 port. I have this stack of dusty 400K single-sided >>>> disks (which I'm sure are still good and must contain lots of really >>>> valuable stuff) and nowhere to plug-in my floppy drive! >>> >>> Meh, there are cheap USB floppy drives. I have one and it works well. >> >> Not that will read 400K or 800K floppies. The USB drive will read 720K >> (PC formatted) floppies and 1.44MB ones, but not the 400K and 800K >> because those require a clutch mechanism to vary the speed on the disk >> as the head travels to the outside tracks. > > It's just Jolly Roger proving yet again that he's a know-nothing idiot. Making a simple mistake (I missed that he referred to 400K floppies) isn't the same thing as being an idiot, but you are unquestionably an A-grade asshole. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR