From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Persistent font in Acme.
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:16:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebb1994daaf2b03d86f6db1adf6be047@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <705e3da2d020df1c0ff56af20dfda85b@hamnavoe.com>
On Sat Nov 8 04:43:12 EST 2014, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> > curious choise. not that you'd want to use this anymore, but ...
> > ...
> > flop=/dev/fd0disk
>
> Actually a couple of weeks ago I had occasion to use not only /rc/bin/a:
> but /rc/bin/b: to do a bit of digital archaeology (current plan 9 kernel
> still supports the 5¼" floppy drive on my old pentium pro machine).
ppro 166Mhz? that's quite the historic artifact!
the last 3½ floppy i used was in an out-of-the-box 4th edition ken's
file server. that was a great system, but i always feared it wouldn't boot
due to floppy bit rot. (the old 5¼ system was more reliable for me.)
there was no doubt when it updated it's configuration.
sadly it was finally retired when it ran out of space. by that time, a new
machine was a better idea, and DOM modules were cheep and reliable.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-09 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 20:03 sl
2014-11-07 22:13 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-08 7:18 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-08 8:29 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-08 9:42 ` Richard Miller
2014-11-08 10:35 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-08 13:47 ` Richard Miller
2014-11-08 14:17 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-08 11:06 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-11-09 2:16 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-11-09 9:46 ` Richard Miller
2014-11-08 15:02 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-09 2:06 ` erik quanstrom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-07 21:22 sl
2014-11-07 22:34 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-06 10:01 Mats Olsson
2014-11-06 10:07 ` dante
2014-11-06 10:13 ` Ingo Krabbe
2014-11-06 12:48 ` Stuart Morrow
2014-11-06 13:14 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-11-06 13:30 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-06 14:04 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-11-06 14:37 ` Lee Fallat
2014-11-06 14:56 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-11-07 20:53 ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-06 10:13 ` Mark van Atten
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