Park Your Hard Drive
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Also started on a hardriveless dual floppy contraption in the early 90's, small little 10 or 12 inch mono screen.... amber. I remember it costing R8000 back then. Oh and the keyboards, those weren't keys, they were switches! Ah the days of autoexec.bat files 
AS/400?
don't forget config.sys - you really had to tweak it to get the most out of your 640k memoryAlso started on a hardriveless dual floppy contraption in the early 90's, small little 10 or 12 inch mono screen.... amber. I remember it costing R8000 back then. Oh and the keyboards, those weren't keys, they were switches! Ah the days of autoexec.bat files
nope IBM 370 - only 7 companies in SA left that uses them, so my job opportunities are scarce to say the least
don't forget config.sys - you really had to tweak it to get the most out of your 640k memory
And what a stupid limitation that was!
haha yep it does, most of my co-workers are over 40, and a good chunk over 50 - and yep 370's are ancient in a sense that they were created a long time ago, but they still make new models with improvements every few years and they can still kick any Windows server farm's ass when it comes to pure brute performance - which what these 7 companies need - they are basically all the banks, the JSE and companies related to the JSE370's are ancient! Does that make you ancient as well?
So you are the man to talk to when I want my bank balance increased?
Ha, you will be surprised how many people get caught every week trying to do just that - when I worked at one of the banks they had a weekly e-mail go out about this week's arrests.
But currently I'm at the JSE - well, I work for the company that the JSE hired to handle the mainframe, as they did not want to handle it in house anymore
It will fit in the CDROM. Just open the drive and put it in. Trust me!
cdrom? isn't that where the coffee cup goes?
cdrom? isn't that where the coffee cup goes?
Also started on a hardriveless dual floppy contraption in the early 90's, small little 10 or 12 inch mono screen.... amber. I remember it costing R8000 back then. Oh and the keyboards, those weren't keys, they were switches! Ah the days of autoexec.bat files
Funny how things change, the more they stay the same. "Mechanical" keyboards are all the rage now. Have a coolermaster one myself.
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I remember copying mortal kombat when Windows 95 1st came out. 48 hard disks, using ARJ, and the second last one had a CRC errora whole day wasted
I had a frustratingly similar experience, Warcraft 2 on 24 stiffies with the last one corrupted
Oh wow. You guys really suffered back in the day. I've only used a floppy / stiffy once in my life. I don't know what the difference between a floppy and a stiffy is actually. And I've never had to park a drive. Things sure we're different when I was a foetus.
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