Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now: Helen

I have good news for you! You can double the capacity of those old "single" sided 5-1/4" floppy discs. You simply flip it over and cut another notch on the other side opposite of the other one. That boosts the capacity to a whopping 1.4 Megabytes or 2.8 Megabytes if you are already using a 1.4 Megabyte capacity floppy!!! Neat stuff indeed!, and now you can get a flash drive with 16 GB of capacity for about 2 dollars a gigabyte.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Gary Orpe <garyo@bak.rr.com> wrote:

 

I used to save my BBS stuff on 5 1/2" floppies when they were one sided and first came out. I still have more than a hundred packed away somewhere, don't know why, and still have one desktop my wife uses with the 5 1/2" drive still working, next to the DVD recorder. Before the floppy we used cassette tapes for awhile and before that it was magnetic cores that were hand woven, bit by bit into planes of 1 K memory, if you could afford it. And back then we had no idea what silicone would become and how useful it would be. Amazing stuff.  LOL Its a good new years memory.

Gary Orpe

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From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of apollonorthamerica
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:06 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now: Helen

 

Ok e-mail included :).
But you have to admit that Telnet or ftp aren't exactly everyday usage for most people. My e-mail is all web based with smtp client on my end. I can check it anywhere I have web access, save it in different web accessible folders, mark it for later read archive it right on the web. All happening in http and markup language from my side. Pretty nifty.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Jay Maynard <jmaynard@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:43:52PM -0000, apollonorthamerica wrote:
> > I think its clear what he is trying to say is that the "web" wasn't around
> > back then. People don't care about all the other "non-user friendly" stuff
> > that existed like gofer etc. In 99% of people's minds web = internet. I
> > have been using the web pretty much since mid to late 90's.
>
> You mean that other non-user-friendly stuff like email? :-)
>
> Email was 75% of the ARPAnet's traffic as early as 1973.
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