Difficulty getting a large disk mounted
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 24 16:01:09 UTC 2005
Jeff Vian wrote:
>
>
> Now you are getting back to even more fogged memory. :-) I dimly
> remember a time when drives were larger than the BIOS could recognize
> and the drivers needed to map them for BIOS to handle. Have not used a
> machine with that old a BIOS for some time though.
>
The fogged memory issue. 8" floppies, punched cards, punched tape,
Star Trek on a tty terminal. Google is becoming part of my memory. :)
One nice thing about getting older is that some of those stupid
things I did as a kid are not so bad anymore, at least until I see
them in my kids. :)
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Robin Laing
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