On 10 October 2012 18:17, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:16 AM, John Many Jars
<john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
On 10 October 2012 12:07, Camiel Vanderhoeven
<iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
I think you're on the right track. My guess
is that they're building
an on-line software repository to archive the 15,000 diskettes with
software they have, and want to do it using original-era hardware.
Maybe they want to restore a very large Windows 3.1 backup?
Testing a Windows 8 floppy install?
Badoom-tish!
Actually, I think that was my favourite answer so far... :?)
2nd place, Rich's linguistics lesson. 3rd place, Fred's speculation on
connecting them all up at once to a single computer.
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