Old farts and new Linux

[Keven Ring]

duncan brown wrote:

>John Nichel said:
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>>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*
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>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.
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> -d

Duncan, you work too hard...  Single-hole hole punchers worked great for 
this task - cut out a semi-circle instead of a whole hole.. :) Sure it 
wasn't square, but it worked like a charm, without the possibility of 
slicing the disk [or your hand]...

Now, for the 3.5" floppies, it was a little more difficult, because a 
hole-puncher left a much larger hole than was required.  For this task, 
I found that a swiss-army knife with a leather-punch tool to be 
effective [albeit a little slow].

Too bad we can't do the same thing to double the size of CD's or DVD's. 
and instead must revert to more primitive means, such as data 
compression... :]

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