12 Jun
2001
12 Jun
'01
8:53 a.m.
When I need a floppy and I grab one out of the stuff box where the
unlabelled ones live, I always do a dir first to see what's on the floppy.
It's amazing how many of my lost files I find that way. I think the labels
fall of and crumble to dust. I found a couple of 5 1/4 floppies with IBM
DisplayWrite 3 files on them the other day. Some of the files were from
1984. One file was my resume. It's amazing that I was listing my
accomplishments about programming in Fortran IV, and PDP assembly language.
Our data was accessed in Datatrieve and we wrote Fortran files to create
data sets. We were thinking about a VAX to replace our PDP 11/70.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu