OT Floppies available

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-11-13 12:56 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 01:28 +0530, Arnav Kalra wrote:

>> haha, looks like you're talking about things older than me.

>> p.s. i am not even 16.

> Oh boy I feel old now!

> I'm 30, and I'm only just older than the CD-ROM, which was apparently
> standardized in 1985. So you're easily younger than that. You're only
> just older than the USB stick, which was invented in 1999, when you were
> 2 or 3.

> Assuming you were born in 1996, you're younger than:

> * 1.44MB floppies (1987)
> * ZIP drive (1994)
> * CompactFlash (1994)
> * DVD (1995)
> * USB (January 1996)

> Moving on...

> * Pentium (1993)
> * Linux (1991)
> * Every 'Star Trek' series except Enterprise (Voyager, 1995)
> * Doom (1993), Doom 2 (1994), possibly Quake (June 1996)
> * Red Hat (1993)
> * Consumer digital cameras (1994-1996)
> * Netscape (the forerunner of Mozilla) (1994)
> * Yahoo (1994)
> * AltaVista (1995)

Lotus 1-2-3  1981
WordPerfect for DOS  1982
MultiVision 1.1 & 3.1 affordable PIP  1986
OS/2  1986
Windows 3 (386)  1990

> There, I think I've made everyone else on the list thoroughly depressed
> by now. ;)

Lotta youngsters here. Concurrent thread: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=50A2AF70.6070407%40earthlink.net&forum_name=freedos-user

I do far have more 5.25" floppies than I'll ever find a use for. :-p
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