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Posted by Andrew Mawson on January 8, 2008, 3:31 am
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> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:36:07 +0000, Tony Jeffree
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wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> I remember when we got four Digital laptop computers with
Windows95
> >>> pre-installed. I, as the systems administrator, religiously used
the
> >>> provided
> >>> utility to re-create the media just-in-case. 22 floppies per
laptop :-(
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Mark Rand
> >>> RTFM
> >>
> >>When I were a lad, the OS (CP/M) used to fit on a single 128Kb 8"
floppy
> >>disk. :-)
> >
> >When I were a lad there weren't any floppy discs - you had to load
the
> >OS from paper tape (having first punched the program onto the paper
> >tape with a blunt needle of course) ;-)
> >
> >regards,
> >Tony
>
> Crikey!
>
> We'll be down to the stone tablet with hieroglyphics at this
rate.....
> Peter
> --
> Peter A Forbes
> Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
> prepair@easynet.co.uk
> http://www.prepair.co.uk
> http://www.prepair.eu
Well it was Holerith cards for me. Took ages to punch a program, and
woe betide you if you dropped the bundle that was your program, as
they didn't have sequential numbering (dahik !)
AWEM
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>system partition on the hard disk which allows you to re-instate the OS if
>it becomes corrupt but if you need to replace the hard disk, you are fcuked.
>Some laptops manufactures expect the end user to create their own recovery
>cds from tools installed on the machine. I wonder how many users actually do
>this?
>