Old farts and new Linux

duncan brown duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Mon May 3 18:40:04 UTC 2004


John Nichel said:
> Same here....I still have the 800XL.  Did you spend the $350 on the
> EXTERNAL 5-1/4" floppy drive, and notch your disks too?  *L*

wow.  i remember doing that.  i completely forgot, but now it's coming
back, lucidly.  i spent an entire afternoon after school with an x-acto
knife (or something very similar) modding discs that the library was going
to throw out.

-d


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