[AT] OT - Malware blocking program and MM Heads

Larry Goss rlgoss at insightbb.com
Wed Sep 9 21:57:11 PDT 2009


Good grief!  All that conjures up the days of "lean, mean code."  You're right, Wayne.  It would be a mistake to refer to what we did as "the good old days."

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Snelling, Wayne K" <wsnelling at southplainscollege.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 23:50
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program and MM Heads
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Well actually there were some 8 inch in Tandy's Radio Shack and 
> IBM Office Machine had 10 in "disc" in them and yes we had 160 k 
> single sided 5.25 before going to the double sided 360k. Apple 
> had their 5.25 before going to smaller. I actual had a Farm 
> program setup on the early 360k and that was an exercise in 
> swapping disk..but it worked and seemed to be more efficient 
> than charting paper. I would not call them the "good ole days" though!
> Now anyone know what a set of MM R heads either Re101-A or 
> 10A1462 would cost and /or are they available?
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of Larry Mason
> Sent: Wed 9/9/2009 11:01 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
> 
> 
> 
> They were 5.25". Do you remember the expansion modules for atari or
> commodores? They were 32K and as big as a paperback. The 
> machines had
> something like 16k built in and these expansion modules gave you HUGE
> amounts of storage : >).
> Larry Mason
> Hackensack MN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
> 
> 
> >I still had my 80-86 and 286 machines sitting in the corner 
> until last year
> > when they had one of those old computer pick up days and I 
> hauled them
> > off.
> > I've still got some, what were they 10",  floppy discs 
> around here maybe
> > they were 8".  I can't remember.  I had an old 
> steaming tape backup drive
> > too but never could get it to work right.  The hardware 
> worked but I
> > couldn't tell that it was actually backing anything up or 
> figure out how
> > to
> > recover it.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Bob McNitt wrote:
> >>
> >>> Roy, one thing I'm very familiar with is PCs &their OSs
> >>
> >> We used them in the place I worked, also (Information 
> Technology Lab,
> >> NIST) and though I was not responsible to get them to work 
> right, we
> >> did run into many of the foibles of the systems over the years.
> >>
> >>> ... MS has pretty
> >>> much dominated available business and general after-market 
> selections.>>
> >> It's true.  I started with PC's using CMP-86.  Not 
> long after that, it
> >> disappeared and MS took over.  The rest, as they say, is 
> history.>>
> >> Roy
> >>
> >> Roy Morgan
> >> k1lky at earthlink.net
> >> 529 Cobb St.
> >> Groton NY, 13073
> >> Home: 607-898-3607
> >> Cell: 301-928-7794
> >>
> >>
> >>
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