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I could use an 8" floppy drive; like what they had in my high school.
Would like a SCSI Floppy. I've never seen one, but every time I do an install of Win XP et al I see it loading the SCSI Floppy Drivers.
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8" floppy? I believe that kind of talk belongs in the soapbox . . . or consult your physician.
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Why should I see a doc for an 8" floppy? Maybe if I had a 2-1/2" hard I could see the need
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MadMyche wrote: I could use an 8" floppy drive
I've just checked them on ebay; they go for ridiculous prices.
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I hope you haven't shown all this to your wife...its hard to explain computer science....
Caveat Emptor.
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abmv wrote: I hope you haven't shown all this to your wife...its hard to explain computer science madness....
Seems more appropriate.
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Putting down the telephone modem I was admiring, I went to look to see if you took my stuff.
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I'm a hoarder as well, at least computer wise. I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years, probably over a dozen or more. I also have a TI/99-4a in the box which was my first, from around '83 I think.
Anybody need a LS-120 drive and disks? 
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Quote: Anybody need a LS-120 drive and disks?
No thanks; I have a bunch. I keep them next to my collection of IOmega drives and disks. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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kmoorevs wrote: I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years
Oh, I give old computers away, to schools and what have you -- but I do so with them complete with all the upgraded hardware, so what I get to keep is the worse quality stuff and the smaller memory sticks.
I get the feeling that I'm doing it wrong, somehow.
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A post like that will get me started just about every time...
I've got memory sticks I don't recognize and have no idea what type of system they'll fit.
I did bring a bunch of old hardware for recycling a few years ago...SCSI adapters, old NICs, AGP video cards, sound cards, lots of serial, parallel, IDE and SCSI cables...and I still have a bunch left. I must have 50 unused hard drives, although some are still recent (up to 4TB) which I really ought to turn into a big consolidated pool just for the sake of having an extra backup.
I did keep one SCSI adapter (and a functional system that can use it), since I still have an expensive SCSI scanner with a significantly larger scan area than most.
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SCSI to db25? Same here.
I've also got a ton and a half of serial data kit & cables, but I didn't include them on my list, because they came in bloody handy during a long contract (>6 months), a while back, for a place that produces systems using standards that have to be approved by about 73,000 countries.
By the time they've finally all approved the use of Ethernet, we'll all be using something else.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: SCSI to db25? Same here.
My scanner? Nope. It came with its own cable, SCSI at both ends.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: with a capacity of under a third of a gig
That big? I remember getting the first 10MB hard drive in the company. The peons were jealous!
(Are there no electronics recyclers in the area? Or are you wanting to appear on an episode of Hoarders?)
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I still have my first ever hard disk - a 20MB hard card for an ISA slot that cost me £250, and my first ever USB thumbdrive - 64MB
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Ah, but those have sentimental value. Most of what I've kept only has value if you're just mental, without the senti.
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I've also got various PC's (my oldest is an 8086 running DOS 3.1), boxes of cables, disks, soundcards and even an old Toshiba laptop with a 2 inch floppy disk drive!
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum.
So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates"
Be it:
Who has provided more influence in the tech industry?
Which was better a pong?
Who was the better CEO?
Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions?
Who was smarter?
Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans?
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Oh please. Salma Hayek.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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you broke me.
I assume you also solve 1 + 2 = Banana
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Phah!
Ann Margret - Dancing with a book!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Gotta love the classics  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Influence in the tech industry - Gates but Jobs in other industries such as communication and entertainment.
Pong - Tie, they both sucked.
CEO - Gates was a better traditional businessman.
Helped the world with their solutions - Tie, both were instrumental in revolutionary changes in several industries.
Smarter - Gates but Jobs was more visionary.
Looked better in turtleneck and jeans - Jobs but then again I've never seen Gates dressed like that.
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