On Sat Nov 8 04:43:12 EST 2014, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: > > curious choise. not that you'd want to use this anymore, but ... > > ... > > flop=/dev/fd0disk > > Actually a couple of weeks ago I had occasion to use not only /rc/bin/a: > but /rc/bin/b: to do a bit of digital archaeology (current plan 9 kernel > still supports the 5¼" floppy drive on my old pentium pro machine).
ppro 166Mhz? that's quite the historic artifact! the last 3½ floppy i used was in an out-of-the-box 4th edition ken's file server. that was a great system, but i always feared it wouldn't boot due to floppy bit rot. (the old 5¼ system was more reliable for me.) there was no doubt when it updated it's configuration. sadly it was finally retired when it ran out of space. by that time, a new machine was a better idea, and DOM modules were cheep and reliable. - erik
