Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:12:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Bill in Co" From: "Bill in Co" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.msdos References: <9fsgsappivp6hh25uotgfjbjrj48o29656@4ax.com> <1ijyzqiajogn1$.17ls5rs8bp76e.dlg@40tude.net> <98wyx.350175$sY7.146881@fx30.am4> Subject: Re: Enhanced Delete in TCC/LE delete after reboot, exclusion range Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:12:49 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-NFilter: 1.2.0 Message-ID: <1YOdndCDYvpeWlfInZ2dnUU7-RudnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 47 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.152.28.180 X-Trace: sv3-VpBu3oXud2fk9x5sgFP5NOpJM2QBGVULObNm4/deZg2MMjGAmumy/2uYTCOGyn2Yc9vpcOaocOcmSr/!Z3IoB57l5RDKSHs/aAGt0Tv4VkoaeABiZe/fqzTNlxVCfCWeiN3cu0xSXjmDNApAbRc3bRFD9+29!QXqzuwCKTk+A6yPih80oeWia/nPI/nzsYQM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3535 Xref: csiph.com microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:135540 alt.msdos:21 DMcCunney wrote: > On 8/11/2015 8:23 PM, Nil wrote: >> On 11 Aug 2015, choro 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. :-)