9 Jun
2009
9 Jun
'09
3:49 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Doug Jackson wrote:
Stopped relying on floppies after I did some work for a government
organisation here (who shall remain nameless) - who gave me a shiny new
box of floppies to replace my box of diag floppies after they had been
in their site. Bummer!
Nowadays - they simply dont let the media in at all!
Years ago I used to repair PC's (Back when
you had to type stuff to
do things, and when the 8087 was just awesome...) My editor of
choice was the MSDOS EDLIN tool. Without fail, every client who
watched me working asked why I didn't use QEDIT34 or ExtraED98 or
"InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", to which I would always reply - 'you
may have "InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", but I can never guarantee the
next client will have it, so I got good at using the standard editor!
I just carried around a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0 on a floppy.
-Dave