On 2023-09-11 10:43 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Sep 10, 2023, at 6:24 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
I make an official motion that Fred write his own "Everything I Know About Floppy
Disks" page / book /encyclopedia.
I suspect that what is inside his head is the greatest collection of knowledge
about floppies on the planet.
Fred, you will be paid with great admiration and appreciation. Sorry,
all I can offer. :-)
Anyone with me?
1) Chuck Guzis knows FAR more than I do about floppy disks.
Tony Duell (ARD) knows FAR more than I do about disk drives.
2) It is now so far out of date that, Who would want it? (besides a few here)
Anyone who wants to resuscitate either old drives, or recover data from old
disks. There is a lot of such data...
Also, history is important. Not always in obvious ways, but if it's lost it
tends to be very hard to recover. One of my favorite examples of old history
is the Ph.D. thesis of Gauthier van den Hove (U. Amsterdam, a few years ago)
analyzing in extreme detail the world's first ALGOL-60 compiler, by Dijkstra
and Zonneveld. Why bother? Well, for one, because it wasn't just the first
compiler but the place where a whole bunch of later-standard techniques were
first invented, and understanding the origin of things and what problems they
solve and why they do it that way can be surprisingly important.
paul
Did Algol in general have memory leaks?,or is just C and Windows.
