How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
10-08-2012, 10:45 PM
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Yeah, I don't trust QuickFormat when it comes to a 15 year old disk that I'm about to store critical data on. Unfortunately, the supply of floppy disks in the office is getting pretty slim, so I've started re-using old driver floppies that came with things like Jaz drives and ethernet cards.
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10-08-2012, 11:56 PM
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You know how you know computer **** is old? When the military doesn't even use it anymore.
We stopped using floppy disks 2 years ago.... Yeah... we still find a couple floating around... and yeah, we still have floppy drives.
We stopped using floppy disks 2 years ago.... Yeah... we still find a couple floating around... and yeah, we still have floppy drives.
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10-09-2012, 12:03 AM
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I remember my dad was using zip drives for ages. He was running his own company, and we had one of those boxes that were the length of your forearm. It was awesome, held all of his designs for the pattern plotter and all this other ****. They were super handy. For the time they were phased in, they were extremely popular. But USB came up super fast, and for an interface, it was easy to market.
Anyway.. computers are gay.
Anyway.. computers are gay.
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10-09-2012, 02:38 AM
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Anybody remember Bernoulli? Floptical? HiFD? Caleb UHD? SuperDisk (LS-120)? Yeah. There are some formats that went absolutely nowhere.
Sidebar: I still have an actual 8" floppy drive lying around somewhere. No idea which box it's in, but I know I have it.
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10-09-2012, 02:53 AM
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I never liked talking about IT ****.. because it makes me look like this massive nerd with glasses and skinny arms with a slightly more toned and athletic looking right arm. But still only weighing 135lbs at 5'9 or whatever.
I'm just going to over emphasize my masculinity by saying... you're all nerds.
But **** man, that's a lot of gear, what exactly do you do?
I'm just going to over emphasize my masculinity by saying... you're all nerds.
But **** man, that's a lot of gear, what exactly do you do?
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10-09-2012, 02:41 PM
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Yeah, that's true.
The following is an excerpt from an email which I sent this morning:
That might be by own personal record for most acronyms in a single sentence.
The following is an excerpt from an email which I sent this morning:
TICK messages written by the DSP onto A_STAT (in response to the first SSI_DI address match following a TICK event) are stored in a RAM (FIFO) within the KSU DSP FPGA, and forwarded to the SBC via SSI_DO on the next SSI_DI query (at the first cycle of SSI_CLK while _START), regardless of address.
The nerdiest part is that all three of the recipients understood this information without any further clarification, and found it useful.That might be by own personal record for most acronyms in a single sentence.
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