"first" computer on the internet

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at verizon.net
Sun Jul 20 15:51:09 CDT 2008


On Sunday 20 July 2008 15:07, madodel wrote:
> I remember all those damn AOL floppy disks for all the windows users. 
> FORMAT A: was a good use for them. 

Did that,  and have since found that when I go to use them I have to 
format 'em again,  though surprisingly I'm not seeing bad sectors like I am 
with some of the "brand name" floppies I also have around.

Got plenty of 'em left,  too,  even this many years later.

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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
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