KryoFlux - imaging of vintage floppy disks via USB

On 11/3/2011 2:44 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote: My introduction to the internet was more-or-less through IRC in the late 80's as a kid. I did BBS's starting around 1983/1984. Multi-line BBSs were rare, fun, and in demand. The best of the local ones had between 4 and 8 lines. Considering that normal message boards usually had at least a day of lag between exchanges, real time communication that "chat" provided, was awesome. A friend from a BBS said, "if you think 7 or 8 people chatting at time is cool, try IRC," giving me a "public" account on the local university's unix box. Really opened up a world of excitement...... never really played with unix or really any OS besides MSDOS, CocoII, and AmigaDOS.......... IRC, for as much of a troll-haven as it is, and a time-sucking procrastinator's dream, really has a redeeming value to it. Since it was around before the www, it was a pretty good source of information at the time and quenched the instant-gratification thirst. (even if it was at the expense of being slightly unreliable) I still pop in from time to time on some channels --- and am always happily surprised when an old friend pops up to say hi. You should try it for a little while. There are some software packages/sites that offer unofficial real-time support through it. Keith