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On the constant malice of the petty scum on RBT
Andre Jute wrote:
On Sep 1, 12:32 am, "MikeWhy" wrote: Andre Jute wrote: On Aug 31, 9:23 pm, "MikeWhy" wrote: Andre Jute wrote: There's something else important about the Mac that isn't often mentioned. Anyone who has been conscientious about transferring his data as new storage media appeared has lost *nothing*. Can any PC/ Microsoft user truly say that? Mo I can search thirty-year-old data from my desktop and it hardly ever needs work, and then just a little, to make it presentable. Who can say that in the PC/Microsoft world? Yes, I can say that. This XP boot image was installed in Jan, 2001, making it this moment a few months short of it's 10th birthday. So you can't really say that your OS vendor has protected your data integrity for 30 years, can you? Ten years is a looooong way short of 30 years. I have some old tapes and disks from the old C64, but I'm thinking that's still a year or two too young. Gawd. What a pack rat you must be. I raise you some microcassettes from an Epson PX8 laptop (called an Epson Paris in the States)...In fact, you can still get those microcassettes as they're a current standard in Olympus and other microrecorders. Andre Jute Gawd, what did I do with those magnetic strips we used to feed the Olivetti Programma 101, the first desktop computer (c1968)? Now that you mention it, if I dig deep enough, I'll find punched card decks. 1970 would be the first. Not that I'd want it, even for bragging rights on your Paris (never heard of it). That was a fun stroll down memory lane. 30 years. There's a fixer stain on my darkroom table about that old. |
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On the constant malice of the petty scum on RBT
On Sep 1, 4:14*am, "MikeWhy" wrote:
Andre Jute wrote: MikeWhy I have some old tapes and disks from the old C64, but I'm thinking that's still a year or two too young. Gawd. What a pack rat you must be. Andre Jute I raise you some microcassettes from an Epson PX8 laptop (called an Epson Paris in the States)...In fact, you can still get those microcassettes as they're a current standard in Olympus and other microrecorders. Andre Jute: Gawd, what did I do with those magnetic strips we used to feed the Olivetti Programma 101, the first desktop computer (c1968)? MikeWhy: Now that you mention it, if I dig deep enough, I'll find punched card decks. 1970 would be the first. Not that I'd want it, even for bragging rights on your Paris (never heard of it). That was a fun stroll down memory lane. 30 years. There's a fixer stain on my darkroom table about that old. Andre Jute: My first computer had glowing thermionic tubes and we communicated with it by a sort of teletype keyboard. Honest. A cousin of mine who ran a big insurance company gave me this obsolete computer against a promise to remove it tidily, for which purpose I brought the entire school of electrical engineering (now just that detail tells one it happened in the mists of history!). My college built a temperature and humidity controlled temple for it and one of my sporting sponsors gave a fund to pay white coats to tend it. Among other things I used that clumsy computer to design better hemi-heads for my racing engines. Six years later you could buy a scientific calculator that weighed perhaps a pound that could do everything that hall full of computer did in a fraction of the time The calculator cost my girlfriend about a quarter of her month's salary and everyone marveled at how cheap such elevated electronics had become! -- today you can get several maxed-out Apple Macs for that much. (I was so grateful for the calculator, I gave her a Porsche. Thus true love was cemented forever.) Andre Jute Reformed petrol head Car-free since 1992 Greener than thou! |
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