[AT] OT - Malware blocking program

[charliehill]

No Larry, I've got 5.25's too.  They are MODERN.  I'm talking about BIG 
floppies.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Mason" <lcmason at uslink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:01 AM
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" 
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> 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"
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>> 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
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>>> Cell: 301-928-7794
>>>
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