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01-17-2007, 09:14 PM
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#1 | | "Shooter"
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01-17-2007, 10:07 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | i also read somewhere on how to make floppy disks as bombs too. the poor unknowingly person slips it into their computer and it explodes. total chaos.
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01-18-2007, 12:55 AM
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01-18-2007, 02:59 AM
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Country:  | Apart from the sense of wellbeing that comes with breaking the mongrels in half, I was gobsmacked by the *Helath Warnings*
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The edges of the metal dust cover and disk hub are extremely sharp. You can cut yourself on them, so be careful.
Doing this will destroy all data on the disk.
Do not attempt to place your new model into a floppy disk drive.
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Just about peed my pants reading that.
OOOHHH it is sharp Jim Bob.
NOOOOOO can't kill data, naughty.
OOOOOOOPs, it didn;t work, what now Billy Bob?
Stuff my dog, OSH can take it up the wazooo.
OSH meet Military.....
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01-18-2007, 06:16 AM
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#5 | | "Shooter"
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We actually did make a few of these at the office.
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01-18-2007, 08:50 AM
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01-18-2007, 12:42 PM
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#7 | | aka Dickcheese
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01-18-2007, 04:17 PM
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| I'm working on a project at work to decommision some old IBM 3174 "controllers" that use those 5" floppies.
Theres actually some pc techs I work with that had never seen a "floppy".
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01-18-2007, 07:15 PM
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#9 | | aka Dickcheese
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Country: |  Welcome to getting older. My sons have no concept of rotary phones, black and white TVs, no remotes, no computers, film projectors...
{please excuse the author, he is now slitting his wrists}
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01-18-2007, 10:41 PM
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Country: | ah yes. but keeping in mind, floppys did for their time what USBs are doing for us now. pretty soon in the near future, people would probably have no concept for USBs.
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01-19-2007, 07:03 AM
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#11 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | It does move quickly to say the least. I can hear my son years from now...
"You used to work on a Turbo XT with 640k of RAM and a 20MB hard drive?!"
Maybe I'll pull out an old 8-track just to throw him off! 
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01-19-2007, 07:13 AM
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Country: | Well, soon it'll be "You have a mechanical hard-drive!?! HAHAHAHAH!" Pretty pathetic that they still are, actually.
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01-20-2007, 05:48 AM
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#13 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | hehe, technology's moving fast but me and CC are of the generation to be able to keep up with it atleast, and we grow up with computers all around us so are very fluent in computers for the most part...........
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01-20-2007, 09:43 AM
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| Anyone here remember those old tape drive units for the mainframes?
Damn were those heavy!!
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01-20-2007, 10:16 AM
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#15 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | I remember owning a Comodore 64! Hell I still have my Atari and a lot of games including frogger and Q-bert.
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