Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
|
quote |
Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
|
That is awesome...until the day you realized you left it in a client's computer...or in the couch...
|
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
Yup.
I would want to have a USB cord going to it so that I didn't accidentally hit it and bend the connector. ... |
quote |
Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
|
I do actually love that you can get that kind of capacity. I remember my first flash drive was a whopping 16MB!! I got it free with a Gateway laptop I purchased from a local Gateway Store. It was a fine flash drive for it's age. I have no idea where it is now though.
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
Luxury, sheer luxury... I still have my 256MB jump drive
EDIT: wait, yours was only 16MB? Okay, you win!!! ... |
quote |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
|
Whippersnappers, with your 'USB' and whatnot. Back in my day we had 5.25" 44MB Bernoulli drives from SyQuest with a full SCSI interface as god intended! We flipped jumper DIPs and selected SCSI IDs manually and we *liked* it!
|
quote |
Sneaky Punk
|
Meh you're just a infant! 44MB that's huge! Our SE took floppy disks (3 1/2 inch type) that were 1.44MB's each! The 100MB hard drive, which was a SCSI add on to the SE, was bigger than a Mac Mini (or G4 Cube for those who remember them). My mother sometimes talks about how when she worked in a local university they were still using huge tape drives (like the size you used to see movie theatre videos played on) for storing less than a 1MB of data.
As to the original question, yes I've seen things like that. I believe Sandisk and Intel make similar devices. Last edited by PB PM : 2016-04-26 at 20:45. |
quote |
Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
|
Losers!
We had an Apple ][+ with twin 5 1/4" floppies with 480KB each! Oh, yeah. ProDOS running in one drive and Loderunner in the other and I was king of the world, baby! Get a real computer, suckers! And, no, Poodrops, I have not seen your dongle. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) Last edited by kscherer : 2016-04-26 at 21:07. |
quote |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
|
ProDOS?? Poseur, puhleeze! DOS 3.3.
|
quote |
Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
|
Well, since we are going all the way back... My first computer was an ADAM computer that used cassette tapes for media!
Quote:
In the Navy I used punch tape on one of my drive machines. In fact, I still have a program I wrote for the punch reader to load. Not sure where that tape is now, but it's paper tape and "safe" right now. I think those machines were from the '60s. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
|
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
You chucklewads can play the "old timey card" all you want, but I recently had to recover a bunch of SyQuest disks and YOU try and find the drivers for that stuff out there on the internet!!!
Good old 709 gave me some drivers that nearly worked and sent me looking for the correct files (successfully). I recovered that mess, but most of the files were compressed with Disk Doubler, so I have ANOTHER work session in store for me in the very near future as soon as I can dig back to my old Blue & White G3 WHICH had experienced a failure of its boot drive and would have been useless if it were not for the availability of a second B&WG3 whose boot drive I stole. EDIT: and yes, yes, yes, my tower has TWO DIFFERENT SCSI lines coming out the back and let me tell you THAT was a bit confusing after 20-something years... So, pipe down, my bitches. ... |
quote |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
|
Cap'n drew, I want your manbabies.
|
quote |
Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
|
We are not worthy.
|
quote |
Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
|
Quote:
I also still have my dual G4 sitting in the closet too if that doesn't work. The internal battery died and it always boots into 1970, but otherwise I think it's still operational. I haven't actually tried booting it in a couple years... The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
|
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
... |
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
Woah, you must have JUST posted as I did, Brad!!! O.o
I will get in touch with you when I can. The big problem with OS X is that the OS 7/8/9 resource fork gets stripped out!!! ... |
quote |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
|
In my case,
Not really mine. My dad bought it. Man that thing did not do very much. It looked pretty good though, for the era. When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray. |
quote |
¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
|
If Brad's solution doesn't work for you, Drew, I have a working Quicksilver that I pull out every year to play the Marathon Trilogy as intended, and since that time is coming up (mid-June) I'd be happy to pull it out early. I know I have a copy of DD somewhere backed-up.
So it goes. |
quote |
Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
|
Durandal is watching you!
I have all three, as well as Pathways into Darkness, which I actually think is the better game. I can still boot my iMac G4 into OS 9 and entertain myself for hours! - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
quote |
¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
|
I'm a Tycho apologist. Not gonna lie.
So you've never played Marathon. You should. ~years later it is still as fun as ever. Sure, the graphics are janky as hell compared to now, but the storyline is unparalleled and the AI interaction is the best ever. I wouldn't be keeping a dusty old handled-thing around if it wasn't, would I? So it goes. Last edited by 709 : 2016-04-28 at 18:30. |
quote |
Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
|
Oh, no. I've played Marathon, Durandal, and Infinity all the way through, multiple times and with multiple heart attacks! Damn S'pht make me wanna kill things!
And, yeah, the graphics are whonky, but, hey, it was, like 1994 or something. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
quote |
geri to my friends
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Heaven
|
|
quote |
geri to my friends
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Heaven
|
|
quote |
Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
|
|
quote |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
|
|
quote |
ಠ_ರೃ
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
|
Quote:
I mean just look at this: |
|
quote |
Posting Rules | Navigation |
|
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Searching a dongle for my mouse (MX Revolution) | dmegatool | Purchasing Advice | 1 | 2008-03-08 12:44 |
Will a USB wireless dongle let me share intenet connection vis airport? | revolution | Genius Bar | 6 | 2005-11-12 18:14 |