Comments | hirez: I haven't posted anything because I can't think of a title

hirez

I haven't posted anything because I can't think of a title

Feb 03, 2006 11:21

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smogo February 3 2006, 11:23:51 UTC

I believe my PC in 1992 had a 140MB hard disk.

alexmc February 3 2006, 11:50:24 UTC

> full-height 5.25"

I only recently threw out one of those which reported itself to be 666Mb in size :-)

alexmc February 3 2006, 12:10:04 UTC

i had a 40M harddrive in 1992, attached to my amiga.

in 1995 my first pc had 520M. well, 512M cause it couldn't see any more than that.

hazeii February 3 2006, 13:00:00 UTC

Presumably that's a SCSI drive - I've got a couple of them buried at the base of my evergrowing pile of retired HDD's. Full of voice recording of Weather forecasts from the early nineties, they are - wonder if they'll still spin up?

Y'all might like to read this.
- might have to switch to IE to do so though, comes up blank here.

hirez February 3 2006, 13:12:48 UTC

It seems completely broken for Moz/Firefix and broken but readable in Konqueror.

Yes, SCSI. Jokes have been made here about glueing a USB connector to it and calling it a keyring drive.

Why the weather forecast? (Forties, Cromarty, Dogger: 1001, rising.)

hazeii February 3 2006, 13:46:17 UTC

They're out of audiotex equipment (used to provide recorded information over the phone). Probably some cricket commentary on there as well.

Forties, Cromarty, Dogger: 1001, rising - if you find that soothing, you probably need a Navtex setup.

Optimum setup:-

a) Monochrome monitor (preferably green on black), running a TTY program
b) Radio tuned to Navtex
c) Decoder software (homebrew, or off the 'net)

Messages scroll in at 100 baud, atmospherics corrupt the occasional character, terse messages of danger at sea.

ZCZC EA02
WZ 1867
FRANCE, NORTH COAST. APPROACHES TO TROUVILLE. UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE
REPORTED 49-24.59N 000-05.55W.

ZCZC AL26
052000 UTC JAN 03
CETACEAN DECAYING (LENGTH 8 M).
PSN : 46 33 N - 002 30 W AT 051600Z JAN
CANCEL THIS MSG AT 071700Z JAN

ZCZC EB38
NITONRADIO
GALE WARNING MONDAY 06 JANUARY 0955GMT

BISCAY
GALE NOW CEASED

SOLE SHANNON ROCKALL
SOUTHEASTERLY GALE FORCE 8 INCREASING SEVERE GALE FORCE 9 SOON

FASTNET
SOUTHEASTERLY GALE FORCE 8 EXPECTED
NNNN

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kissmeforlonger February 3 2006, 13:11:44 UTC

Something involving petrol and matches?

hirez February 3 2006, 13:14:40 UTC

Yes. Viking burial. Or viking flaming footwear rocket attack. Viking midnight drunken trebuchet arson. Something like that.

oryctolagus February 3 2006, 14:12:43 UTC

Ooooh Viking burial. We've got a viking-style blowing horn that we could bring round and sound over the flames. Or we could all bring a pair or redundant footwear and consign them to the flames in some kind of footwear-related Up Hellya. Or we could float them off down the Frome in a kind of 13th Warriors sort of send off....

'Lo there do I see my footwear, lo there do I see my sandals and my stillettos and my pointy boots of doom.......'

hirez February 4 2006, 00:35:23 UTC

Yes. Absolutely.

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steer February 3 2006, 15:25:58 UTC

In 1992 I was using an aging Amstrad 1512 which was purchased in '87. It had 512K of memory and a single 360K floppy drive. It also had a whopping 50 bytes of non-volatile ram.