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Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother
Date 2024-10-25 10:15 +0000
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <vfg23o.i7g.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
[...]

> Before hard drives came along, a "dream machine" was one with two
> floppy drives.
> While this isn't ours, it illustrates what people used to fight over.
> Nobody wanted the machines that had only the one floppy (your *OS* was
> on that floppy).
> Any time the OS floppy comes out of the machine, your screen would say
> "Hey, dumbass, put my floppy back in" :-) Being asked to copy a data
> floppy, would always bring a scowl to the face of a single floppy
> drive computer user.  I had one of those for a while. There was so
> little RAM in the computer, you couldn't buffer a full floppy in
> there! Nightmare stuff.  "Insert floppy 1" "Insert floppy 2" "Insert
> floppy 1" ... "Hey dumbass..."
> 
> https://www.hpmuseum.net/images/9895A-35.jpg

  Two 8" floppy drives for a mere $5830! A steal!

<https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=262>

  Thanks for the memory! I enjoyed the 'Collector's Notes' and the
reference to <https://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdrive/>. The things
people do to keep old stuff working. Amazing!

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Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-23 21:54 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 00:56 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:35 +0000
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:35 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 03:20 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-24 16:12 +0200
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 13:20 -0400
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> - 2024-10-24 13:00 -0500
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:12 -0400
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-26 12:10 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-26 15:56 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-26 14:09 -0400
              Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-28 16:53 +0100
                Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-01 09:19 +0100
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:33 -0400
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 21:13 -0400
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-25 01:35 -0400
              Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-10-25 10:15 +0000
              Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-25 15:11 +0200
                Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-25 11:02 -0400
                Olde Disk Drives (was: Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-10-25 17:35 +0100
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:15 +0000
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:42 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-25 18:41 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 06:26 +0000
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 13:56 +0000

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