Posted on 03/23/2009 3:51:21 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Symantics here but I have done many of the items on the list. My geek skills don't exist beyond DOS and windows so I have a handicap.
I no longer even turn the damned thing on .. it's just always ... um .... there!
Heck, anyone can do that. But I can run Windows, OS X and OS 9 or 7 on mine- and all at the same time.
Oh you kids today...When I was your age, a 360K floppy was good enough to hold FDISK, DOS, MASM, LINK, EXE2BIN, and just enough left over for a line editor if you didn't want to use EDLIN.
So who here has used a little punch on a 5 1/4-in diskette sleeve to turn it into a “high” density? Don’t lie to me. You know who you are.
More:
Build a bootable Linux USB stick.
Know the best way to zap a CD (microwave it, 5 seconds!)
Understand the early history of telephone phreaking
http://artofhacking.com/tap/tap/index.htm
If Kirk's in charge, it's a half second battle and the Federation kicks @ss. Picard would surrender to a droid.
Man, I get about an 80% on the above. Major Geekoid.
>>>> Hey - I can do most of the things on that list and I was a liberal arts major! <<<<<<
Being a befuddled liberal arts major (with a BA in Liberal Arts no less), first I was a geek, and then I a got a degree in liberal arts.
That was routine
There are only 10 types of geeks, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
>>>> Have you ever played the “Star Trek” game on a PDP8 ...using a TTY terminal? <<<<<<
Was it possible to play on a DECwriter, or am I crossing my memory banks?
Used to play it on a portable terminal - thermal printer - 110 baud acoustic coupler modem, connected to ARPANet. That, and Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure (predecessor of Zork).
And my 16 year old complains when bandrate drops.
And it's fun to watch too. The burnt in spark pattern will keep it from ever being used in a drive again, but if the CIA or NSA digs through your trash they'll still be able to get most of the data off of the disc by reading it with a microscope.
Back when my Leading Edge Turbo was the only computer in the office, our new office manager stapled a routing slip to my SuperCalc3 update diskette and stamped it with one of these.
Leaving four deep impressions. She then capped this by dragging several jumbo paper clips from her magnetized holder to afix the envelope and cover letter.
The guy at CAI LHAO when I asked for a replacement to be mailed to my apt.
>>>>>> if the CIA or NSA digs through your trash they’ll still be able to get most of the data off of the disc by reading it with a microscope. <<<<<<<
Personally it’s only of academic interest.
However I think they may be “theoretically recoverable” but not actually recoverable in the real world.
touché sir, touché!
I used to use these for a notepad during (and well after) college! Does that count?
-PJ
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