Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I used to play > Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing.  Ha!  We entered > angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent You may be interested in this Python remake of Gorilla: http://inventwithpython.com/bl

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Nils Andresen
Guys, I feel with you - "I was there", too. But please stop scaring the youngsters. Nils 2012/1/30 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 >> MB hard disk. >> >> (Or maybe 8

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 > MB hard disk. > > (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) I can't imagine not being able to remember the figure, giving the difference of 300%. ;-) Our f

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a > hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; > I never managed to fill that drive.) I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of memory b

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > > >> > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal > > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that

Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment > > LED) display between "4.77