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I think one of the Grease Monkey scripts or page beautifier is altering that particular page. The promotional page looks fine in safe mode with all of the extensions disabled.
so probably not the most practical way of backing up the hdd.
a floppy (3.5") holds 1.44mb of data.
I still have some zip disks around somewhere...those were a whopping 100mbs!
I don't see those images on the page you linked to.
Dana
Weird, they show up for me when you mouse over the product names, FF29.0.1, no AdBlock
Oh, now that you say that, I see them...one at a time when I hover over the product names.
Dana
so probably not the most practical way of backing up the hdd.
a floppy (3.5") holds 1.44mb of data.
I still have some zip disks around somewhere...those were a whopping 100mbs!
I have some of those, too. My zip drive was a SCSI device, though. When my SCSI hard drive went, I got rid of the SCSI card. 100MB seems so tiny now. I have a tiny thumb drive that holds 16GB! :lol:
Dana
That's good to hear :)
All work and no fun makes for a dull time but the alternative doesn't feel too good ;)
Weird, they show up for me when you mouse over the product names, FF29.0.1, no AdBlock
works for me as well Safari 7.05.04 vanilla :)
a floppy (3.5") holds 1.44mb of data.
I still have some zip disks around somewhere...those were a whopping 100mbs!
I have some of those, too. My zip drive was a SCSI device, though. When my SCSI hard drive went, I got rid of the SCSI card. 100MB seems so tiny now. I have a tiny thumb drive that holds 16GB! :lol:
Dana
Remember the click of death zip drives well :)
a floppy (3.5") holds 1.44mb of data.
I still have some zip disks around somewhere...those were a whopping 100mbs!
I have some of those, too. My zip drive was a SCSI device, though. When my SCSI hard drive went, I got rid of the SCSI card. 100MB seems so tiny now. I have a tiny thumb drive that holds 16GB! :lol:
Dana
Yeah, my zip drive was a SCSI as well...external. I remember those disks were $20 each...expensive back then. I have a 16gb and a 64gb thumb drive, and my 2Tb backup external is actually a bit smaller than the zip drive. lol.
a floppy (3.5") holds 1.44mb of data.
I still have some zip disks around somewhere...those were a whopping 100mbs!
I have some of those, too. My zip drive was a SCSI device, though. When my SCSI hard drive went, I got rid of the SCSI card. 100MB seems so tiny now. I have a tiny thumb drive that holds 16GB! :lol:
Dana
Remember the click of death zip drives well :)
I never experienced that. I think my drive was retired before it started happening. I was considering trying to get an internal zip drive so I could use the disks...some of them were brand new, got them in a ten-pak...but kind of gave up on the idea.
Dana
...job-wise, been there many times.
... always sad when we lose someone that actually *adds* something positive to the world!
heh, most of us are doing well just to be more or less neutral in our effect on humanity in general! Oh, we might be good individually, but very few are those that have effects beyond those few people that they touch as individuals...
re: zip drives, SCSI interface, etc.
(sob) I feel so OLD!!! LOL!
place I worked right out of college had mini-computer (forget the type - not in business anymore anyway) with a 300 MB hard drive and a 400MB tape backup.
... this was a government (local - but still) agency and that RAN THE ENTIRE PLACE. The hard drive was the size of a WASHING MACHINE (clothes washer) and you could hit the 'disengage' button and lift the lid and LIFT OUT THE DRIVE PLATTERS! O.O they weighed about 30 lbs, were about 18" diameter (and stacked 5 or 6 high). But you never - EVER - stuck your hand down in the unit to make adjustments or whatever unless you pulled the power cord FIRST - if the system tried to access the drive while you hand was in there (even if the disks weren't) the drive head armatures would slash your arm and hand to ribbons (and had a decent chance of removing fingers) - the drive heads were mounted on steel blades about a foot long.
luckily the tape backup was more 'modern' (only about the size of an older VCR: 24" wide, 6" tall, 18" deep) as the previous REEL TO REEL had died shortly before I got there!
my first computer (that I bought new, that is) was a 486 25MHz - one of the first ones in America (I had the motherboard and chips special ordered from Korea - IBM hadn't even produced a prototype yet!)... 8 megs of RAM and a 120MB hard drive... VGA graphics with 256k on the card! weee! (by the way, that was considered a rendering MONSTER back then - well, in AutoCAD and the like at least).
my thumb/flash drive holds 8GB... my Kindle has 27 GB of storage... heck, my system has 16GB of *RAM*, 4GB of RAM on the Video cards (dual cards with 2GB each) and a 1TB hard drive!
... it is not even comparable, really... like comparing a Buggatti Veron to a Ford Model T.
which is sad, because my current system cost LESS than the first one!!
All of this old computer talk... Hah, is truly fascinating to see how far commonplace tech has come in such a relatively short time.
Rain is still enough of a wonder to splash around in puddles making reflections fracture and glitter and re-form in almost an instant :lol:
i left my umbrella at work yesterday. iz drizzly out. what to do
Order pizza delivered, and sleep under the desk ;-)
YOU feel old? My first job out of college, I transitioned us from TSO to CMS.. My first computer bought new was an IBM AT, 286, 8MHz with a Turbo 10MHz option.
Our (family) first computer was an Acorn Atom with 1KB of RAM, half of which was used for the display. My own first was an Atari ST with 512KB.
Order pizza delivered, and sleep under the desk ;-)
staying home woulda been the best option. :lol: don't wanna lose hours with aiko6 coming out this month. i suffer for sweet Aiko.
iz a benadryl morning
misread a garage sale sign as gargoyle :roll:
complaint - sooo much work to do. 4 weeks to the iso audit. :shut:
and my writing muse is wakey today.
i think i might have a sinus infection. seperate symptoms from the lip thing going on.
triple shot of esspresso latte time!
I hope you can see a doctor soon about your sinus infection and your lip problem. Misty. Take care.
...indeed, sinus infections are not to be taken lightly (speaking from experience).
...we called the DEC drive units "Maytags" because they not only were as large as, but even looked like the type of washing machine you'd see in a laundromat. (see below).
Used to run one of those old tape drives on a regular basis at my multimedia development firm as the publishers would send us their journal files on tape. if the end of the tape was crimped in any way (which happened many times because they didn't put a sleeve over the tape) it would fail to thread properly.
First system was an old 48K Apple ][ with dual external 5.25 Disk ][ floppy drives.
First PC was an 12gHz 286 with a whopping 4 MB RAM 20MB HDD dual 5.25 double sided FDDs, and amber display monitor running MSDOS 4.0.
Our first computer was a Commodore 64. With a cassette tape drive! We got a floppy drive for it pretty quick. Eventually got the custom slim keyboard case and some GEOS software...looked like a Mac with that, with nice fonts and graphics and used a mouse. I used to drool at the ads for a 20MB hard drive you could get for it, in Compute magazine. There were RAM expansion modules you could get for it, too. I could never afford those things, though.
My first IBM compatible PC was an XT, with an amber monitor. My brother-in-law gave it to me. My friend immediately upgraded it to a Turbo XT, and gave me a Hercules graphics card. It had better resolution than a CGA card. But of course, no color. The PC had 640K of RAM. I got an Okidata dot matrix printer. Later I got an Epson color dot matrix printer. I've purchased Epson printers ever since. My Epson Photo Stylus 1270 (wide format inkjet) lasted from around 1997 to just last year, when it just stopped printing.
My first brand new, purchased, computer was I think a Pentium. It wasn't an off-the-shelf, though, it was built from the best components I could get at the time. My friend helped me put it together.
Dana
I'm using the tablet cuz the single core computer is busy updating a game. I think the patch is 5 gb . wow. Its been downloading files to 30 minutes now. CPU is too slow for me to do anything else. Funny how the tablet seems to be faster than a celeron from like the late 1990s early 2000s
Edit: I think the tablet has more memory than a desktop running Windows 98. Lol
Big thunderstorm over Raleigh Durham, nc. Hope Kulay wolf will be OK. Still on tablet cuz game is still patching
...arrgh!!!!
Was working on my RRRR entry when the power went out. Went outside to check with the neighbours when I saw a reminder notice from the utility service hanging on the front door of the house. Apparently, the upstairs tenants haven't been paying the power bill and it was well past due (they usually let one slide for at least a month and mail/email past due notices before getting nasty). The upstairs tenants get a break on their rent (and mine increased last year) to compensate for the power I use as both my unit and the main house are on the same meter.
Of course, nobody upstairs is home but I did get a chance to speak with the landlady and she's going to contact them to get this taken care of. The rub in all this is the notice mentions that the bill has to be paid in person at one of the utility offices (only open until 5PM), not by phone, bank transfer, or at a bill pay outlet, so not sure when it will be restored.
Bad enough I lost a fair amount of work (including surface creation I was doing with the Geometry Editing Tool) but I just did my weekly market trip yesterday and bought a whole bunch of food that needed refrigeration or freezing. Won't be very pleased if it all spoils. Can't cook any of it because the stove is electric.
. ..and these people are Grad Students.
Currently at the corner coffee shop.