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arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I still remember when it was cool to cut a notch into a DSDD Floppy disc so you could flip it over and get double the storage! I miss my Apple II. That makes 3 of US, Of course I never owned an Apple, Just an Atari 400. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Me too. Those were the days. |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
I still remember when it was cool to cut a notch into a DSDD Floppy disc so you could flip it over and get double the storage! I miss my Apple II. I remember my brother doing that with his C-64. (A computer I eventually inherited when he bought am Amiga.) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0 |
I still remember when it was cool to cut a notch into a DSDD Floppy disc so you could flip it over and get double the storage! I miss my Apple II. I did too, but it wasn't with a DSDD floppy...those were DOUBLE-SIDED/Double-Density disks. The single-sided floppies were 180K if I remember correctly. And when you flipped them they rotated opposite from the normal direction causing all the dust and grit trapped by the cleaning brush to loosen up and rub against the R/W heads...kind of like taking sand-paper to them. |
KD [SETI.USA] Send message Joined: 24 Oct 99 Posts: 459 Credit: 2,513,131 RAC: 0 |
Remember the old Connor HDD's? I think they were actually under Seagate too. I can't remember. I just remember buying a bundle of them in the early-mid 90's and every single one ended up self destructing. Luckily, always transferred data from one HDD to HDD another before they imploded. I still have all my data, going back to the 80's, but those HDD's were horrible. This may be the exception, but I've always liked IBM for SCSI and Samsung for EIDE/SATA. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I still remember when it was cool to cut a notch into a DSDD Floppy disc so you could flip it over and get double the storage! I miss my Apple II. I also had an Amiga(1000, 3000 and 4000(The 4000 even had the MAC 7.8 OS in It on a card w/real mac roms and a 386sx on a card at 16MHz running DOS 3.3), Atari ST(520, 520DTF, 1040STF and Mega 4), An Atari 800xl w/an ICD pbi expander(that's not what It was called) and It had an 80MB hdd(st-4096 hooked up to It), So I've used a few computers over the years. :) I even owned for a time a 1450XL motherboard with a 1200XL Case and Keyboard that worked and had a pbi bus just like or nearly like the 800xl, the 1200xl case needed to be modified where the pbi bus came out the rear as the 1200xl doesn't have a pbi bus. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
KD [SETI.USA] Send message Joined: 24 Oct 99 Posts: 459 Credit: 2,513,131 RAC: 0 |
Had Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computers II/III ("Cocos"). Those were fun computers. In retrospect, learned more from them than I did from pee-cee's. Upgrading meant using the soldering iron. What was really cool about them was that they were so easy to integrate with the "real world" with. The joystick ports (pseudo-ADC's) were really easy to program around. Learned a little assembly to get around on the Coco II before moving onto the Coco III (and OS9). OS9 was a UNIX-like RTOS from Microware that had a version for the Coco. Not bad for an 8-biter. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Remember the old Connor HDD's? I think they were actually under Seagate too. I can't remember. I just remember buying a bundle of them in the early-mid 90's and every single one ended up self destructing. Luckily, always transferred data from one HDD to HDD another before they imploded. I still have all my data, going back to the 80's, but those HDD's were horrible. I don't/didn't have that problem with the Conner HDDs. The 80MB & 120MB are still working today. Though I did hear of other people having a lot of problems with them, and I remember that was the reason why a lot of PC vendors dropped them from their systems, ultimately causing Conner to be driven out of business in 1998. I know Packard Bell systems used them exclusively for years, and so did Compaq and I think Gateway. The part about Seagate that you remember was that Connor was founded by Seagate co-founder Finis Connor, and merged with Seagate in 1996. Wiki. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
It might have been, As It was a long time ago. :D The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
This may be the exception, but I've always liked IBM for SCSI and Samsung for EIDE/SATA. I had one horrible experience with an IBM SCSI drive -- that was mission critical, of course. I took the chance that the drive was temperature sensitive, and stuck it in the freezer for an hour. Got half the data before it got too warm. Got the rest on the second try. |
HTH Send message Joined: 8 Jul 00 Posts: 691 Credit: 909,237 RAC: 0 |
Where are all the SAS disk drives? SAS does not use the CPU for disk operations, am I right? Henri. Manned mission to Mars in 2019 Petition <-- Sign this, please. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I an not sure I quite believe it........... The 3rd Brick just crashed.......... Taking all that I know with it............ Ya got to be kidding, eh?????????? no, no overtemps..........no kick in the pants;;;;;;;;;;;;; no warning..... this is pure BS...........wowo......... Even the kittyman can not believe this..........it is just dead in the water........... WTF..........(and that's 'where' the freakin 'fish is, so don't mock me, Pete, I am not in the mood right now..........). Just flat out died.........again.........after a few weeks.........dead in the water..............totally........just don't believe it......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Ouch!!!!!!! 'Ouch' don't quite fit right now......... but i shall try to be polite............. Which the mods know is not my forte', so I am really restraining myself....... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Just calm down, not the end of the world, just a setback. My condolences though. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3194 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Freddie Mercury said it best ... Another One Bites The Dust Wondering if they were part of a bad batch / lot all manufactured around the same time? |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I an not sure I quite believe it........... This Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Freddie Mercury said it best ... Another One Bites The Dust Of course they were...........I bought all 3 of them at the same time Made in Thailand..........blokes must have heen smoking too much Thai stick at the factory that day............ "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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