[AT] OT - Malware blocking program

[Larry Goss]

You are one generation off, Larry.  The really old floppy disks were 8-inch.  They were a pain to handle in a classroom setting.  It was "real modernization" when the 5.25-inch disks came out.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Mason <lcmason at uslink.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 23:10
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 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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