Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:04:05AM -0400, Teo Zenios wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset at amanda.spole.gov>
> To: "Ronald Wayne" <AppleTO at gmail.com>; "General Discussion: On-Topic and
> Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past
> (fwd)
> 
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:04:59PM -0400, Ronald Wayne wrote:
> > > If the floppy disk disappeared, I would notice (I use them) but would
> > > not care.
> >
> > I recently put together a semi-modern system (AMD Socket A, 1.4GHz,
> > 768MB max RAM, 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 0 ISA)...
> 
> Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME have problems with vcache if you have 768MB of ram
> or more that can cause hangs on bootup along with other problems.
> 
> http://godzilla.kennedykrieger.org/~jgillen/computer/pcmemory.html

Yes, I know... I specified "max" because that's the maximum amount of RAM
the system can take, not necessarily what was installed at the time.

When this was a W98 box, it had just shy of 512MB (one 256K, one 128K and
one 64K stick).  For application reasons, I have upgraded it to XP and
bumped it up to 512MB.

Nevertheless, to keep things on-topic, it has a floppy because in the
past, trying to have _no_ floppy caused problems.  With one attached,
I am no longer having wierd delays, etc.

-ethan

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