Re: rats, disc 12 is no good

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From: Doug McLaren
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:38

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In article <190308.231252.ai.2.89@sqwertz.com>,
Sqwertz  <swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote:

| (Win95 floppies were "overburned" with 1.64mg of data)

Oh man, I'd forgotten about that particular pain in the ass!

Sure, you could squeeze more data into a floppy, but you took an
already unreliable data form and made it even more unreliable, and
then some (lots of?) floppy drives couldn't even read it ...

One relic I'm glad to see left behind!

So, the more pressing question ...

_Why_ are you (well, not you, Steve) mucking with Windows 95?  It's
old enough to be quite obsolete, but not so old or different to be
worth messing with for nostalgia purposes.  (Apple DOS 3.3?  Sure.
TRSDOS?  Sure.  But W95?)

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc@frenzied.us     Somebody help me, I'm being spontaneous!

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