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Re: For Sale 5.25 360K Floppy Disk Drive

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From: juul
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:00
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On 1998-04-21 dremu@shell8.ba.best.com said:
 dr-: They have boats in Redwood City?  Or does this have something to
 dr-do with : the RC POP?   -Kevin
 dr-: In ba.market.computers Wayne <Wayne3@gte.net> wrote:
 dr-:   > You should hang on to it  - - - - - I heard that they`re
 dr-coming back: :   > as anchors for RC boats.
 dr-That would be Radio Control boats. Also good for holding light
 dr-doors open, throwing at your neighbor when he's drunk, and
 dr-disassembling for stepper motors and opto-electronics for robots.
 dr-Not good for booting XT's, that's what steel toe boots are for.
 dr---

I agree that it is "unusual" to be _selling_ something which is
usually free, but you must realize that there are many people who
still use XT's.
   I do a lot of computing and most of my really useful programs
will fit on a couple of 360's. You don't need more space to do
e-mail, usenet, word processing, and data communication over
telephone lines.  To me, it would be a _real_ joke if someone
was using a pentium with a "gigadrive" to do these things!
XT's with their 360's are well suited to these tasks.
   I guess we all laugh at different things. <g>

Cheers,
        Ole Juul
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From: juul@portal.ca
Subject: Re: For Sale 5.25 360K Floppy Disk Drive
Date: 1998/04/23
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