jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> Yeah, that's pretty annoying. In a similar vein, this probably
> doesn't happen anymore now that diskettes have pretty much gone the
> way of the Dodo bird, the 5.25" was a "floppy disk" and a 3.5" was a
> "hard disk". That one used to bug me, but I never really hear it
> anymore; probably because nobody remembers the 5.25" disks.
>
Man, I can't forget those 5.25" disks... Had a summer job at the high
school I attended working for the computer department and had to format
about 10,000 disks as one of my tasks. They put the WRONG guy on that
job! Took me about 3 weeks, and went through 3 floppy drives... Apple
IIe drives that ran about $200 a pop at the time (early 90's) For what
they paid for the drives, and me at $4.25 an hour, they could have
bought new blank disks. But hey, I wasn't complaining... got to see the
Rollins Band that summer! :)
Gary Hedlin
98 Dakota Sport 3.9
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