Old farts and new Linux
Keven Ring
keven at mitre.org
Mon May 3 18:59:06 UTC 2004
duncan brown wrote:
>John Nichel said:
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>>Same here....I still have the 800XL. Did you spend the $350 on the
>>EXTERNAL 5-1/4" floppy drive, and notch your disks too? *L*
>>
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>
>wow. i remember doing that. i completely forgot, but now it's coming
>back, lucidly. i spent an entire afternoon after school with an x-acto
>knife (or something very similar) modding discs that the library was going
>to throw out.
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>
>
> -d
Duncan, you work too hard... Single-hole hole punchers worked great for
this task - cut out a semi-circle instead of a whole hole.. :) Sure it
wasn't square, but it worked like a charm, without the possibility of
slicing the disk [or your hand]...
Now, for the 3.5" floppies, it was a little more difficult, because a
hole-puncher left a much larger hole than was required. For this task,
I found that a swiss-army knife with a leather-punch tool to be
effective [albeit a little slow].
Too bad we can't do the same thing to double the size of CD's or DVD's.
and instead must revert to more primitive means, such as data
compression... :]
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