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If the disks are that old, then they might not works anymore...
At some points, I try to read many of the old ones that I have and maybe half of them were not readable anymore.
I don't know if "original" disks were somewhat better than end-user disks (as it would be the case for pressed vs burned CDs).
In particular, those disk were sensible to magnetic fields so if disks were stored too close of magnetic objects, then their live would be much shorter.
Then as it is 16 bit stuff, you need an OS able to run that too. And the langage itself has changed a lot since then.
Philippe Mori
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Went through all my old software recently. Always an adventure.
I bought it. I probably even used at one time or another. But I don't recall the first thing about Object Vision.
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I too still have the 3.5" diskettes: mine is Turbo C++ 3.5 for Windows 3.1
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I just realized what day it is!...my favorite number. (or an approximation thereof)
Edit: added a link[^] for good measure.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 14-Mar-15 15:44pm.
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I don't like Pi, but I would love some Pie[^] and see if its circumference and diameter have a relation between each other.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Aah! Thanks for pointing that out. I would have missed it, if you didn't point it out. And it is accurate to 5 decimals, if you omit the "20" of 2015!
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... and a few more if you ignore that 9:26... is really 09:26...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Love your Sig.
It is fantastic.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Thanks. I put a lot of thought into it.
"Some days I sets and thinks and some days I jest sets."
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
modified 20-Mar-15 10:31am.
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14-3-15?
Weird American, or is that a tautology?
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Call it weird if you like, but in the USA today's date is written 3-14-15. Do you get it now?
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Do you get it now? I never didn't get it, get it?
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Ok, I got it!
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3-14-16 is a closer approximation...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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True! We must remember to do this all again in a year!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: in the USA today's date is written 3-14-15
No, it isn't; it's 2015-03-14 .
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Sander Rossel wrote: tautology
I had to look that up! (both references)
I suppose it is culture specific, meaning that except for US, there will be no Pi day...ever.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Every year has an 3-14 15 and an 6-28 3:18:53 .
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Every year has an 3-14 15 and
an 6-28 3:18:53 .
This is the best reason that I have seen for replacing pi with tau.
[Other than the very simple cases mentioned by the tau enthusiasts, replacing pi with tau would require adding factors to many equations.]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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As a developer you should know that culture specific dates are a hassle
You either don't format your dates, in which case the customer is going to complain that his dates are formatted wrong, or you do, but you still do it wrong and now all your parse methods throw exceptions too
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You either don't format your dates...or have only US clients who are used to it being 'wrong'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: except for US, there will be no Pi day...ever.
You obviously missed the news that we're adding an extra day to April this year.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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