Re: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
- From: <Jack.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:11:27 -0500
Me, me, me. Both at home and work, although not Foxboro. I wish I still
had a few of those IBM punch cards that overflowed the waste bins and
littered the floor of the state of the art computer lab at Texas A&M
back in the day (1968).
Jack Easley
Sr. I&C Technician
Luminant Power, Martin Lake Plant
Phone 903.836.6273
jack.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Brown, Stanley
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:06 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
My wife used to be a data entry clerk. She spent many nights punching
cards.
OK, who claims to have entered their program completely from the front
panel switches?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Jack.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:01 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
>
> I'll see your magnetic tape and raise you a punched tape (didn't have
> magnets back then). OK, whose got the punch cards...
>
> Jack Easley
> Sr. I&C Technician
> Luminant Power, Martin Lake Plant
> Phone 903.836.6273
> jack.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Toecker, Michael
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:56 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
>
> I'll see your 5.25 and 2.5 floppies, and raise you my magnetic tape
> deck
> with the FORTH data interface.
>
> Mike Toecker
> ________________________________
>
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ball, Patrick G.
> Sent: Tue 4/27/2010 3:45 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
>
>
>
> David,
>
> I would like 100 - 3.5" floppies and I still have some 5.25" I will
> swap
> you.
>
> Much later,
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Johnson, David
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:29 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [foxboro] The end of the 3.5" floppy
>
> hey guys,
> Sony announced they would no longer make the 3.5" floppy. This seems
> to
> herald the demise of the format.
> Here's a link or two
>
> It's in this neatorama post.
> http://www.neatorama.com <http://www.neatorama.com/>
>
> and more boringly here at pcmag
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363055,00.asp
>
> Now I know you still need them to do your sysdefs and reconciles,
> especially if you have old Sun boxes. So I'm willing to help a
brother
> out. I am selling unused 3.5" floppies for $400 a piece WHILE THEY
> LAST. Jump in and get them early, they won't last at these prices.
> Free Shipping if you enter promo code "letterbug".
>
> Later,
> David
>
>
>
>
>
>
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