From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:16:33 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <705e3da2d020df1c0ff56af20dfda85b@hamnavoe.com> References: <705e3da2d020df1c0ff56af20dfda85b@hamnavoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Persistent font in Acme. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 269a82da-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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=3D/dev/fd0disk >=20 > 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 kerne= l > still supports the 5=C2=BC" floppy drive on my old pentium pro machine)= . ppro 166Mhz? that's quite the historic artifact! the last 3=C2=BD 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 bo= ot due to floppy bit rot. (the old 5=C2=BC 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 n= ew machine was a better idea, and DOM modules were cheep and reliable. - erik