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Re: Sequoia 15.3 released

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On 11/02/2025 10:17, Alan B wrote:
> On 2025-02-11, J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
>> Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
>>>> Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyone installed it yet?  Any issues spotted ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
>>>>>>> months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
>>>>>>> interrupted by dark screens.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Look, what is this nonsense?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It
>>>>>> came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as
>>>>>> I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to
>>>>>> be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another 9 minutes pah.
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46
>>>>> floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)
>>>>
>>>> In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
>>>> to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,
>>>
>>> Undoubtedly ;-)
>>
>> So you should have done it in triplicate...
> 
> Do you remember Iomega Zip drives? I used one of those for a while with 100
> Mb diskettes (you could get larger capacities also).

Yep. It was great - the click of death not withstanding - as alternative 
re-writable media was niche/expensive/unavailable.

Pretty sure I had the 250MB version.

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Sequoia 15.3 released jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2025-02-06 14:39 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-02-06 14:50 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released David Kennedy <davidkennedygm@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 08:54 +0000
    Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 09:03 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 13:10 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-09 15:26 +0000
    Re: Sequoia 15.3 released D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-02-09 19:50 +0000
      Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-09 20:31 +0000
        Re: Sequoia 15.3 released nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-09 22:19 +0100
          Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-09 21:33 +0000
            Re: Sequoia 15.3 released nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-11 09:08 +0100
              Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-11 10:17 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-02-11 10:57 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Frederick <fred@ypical.demon.invalid> - 2025-02-11 15:22 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-02-14 11:23 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Martin S Taylor <hogwash@mRaErMtOiVnEstaylor.TcHoImS> - 2025-03-05 15:56 +0000
      Re: Sequoia 15.3 released John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-11 01:07 +0000
    Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 19:22 +0000
      Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-02-11 11:00 +0000
        Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-11 11:24 +0000

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