[drewprops]

Has anybody seen this gizmo??





...

[turtle]

That is awesome...until the day you realized you left it in a client's computer...or in the couch...

[drewprops]

Yup.

I would want to have a USB cord going to it so that I didn't accidentally hit it and bend the connector.


...

[turtle]

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.

[drewprops]

Luxury, sheer luxury... I still have my 256MB jump drive

EDIT: wait, yours was only 16MB?

Okay, you win!!!

...

[Kickaha]

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!

[PB PM]

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.

[kscherer]

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.

[Kickaha]

ProDOS?? Poseur, puhleeze! DOS 3.3.

[kscherer]

I knew there was something wrong with you.

And where's the Geriatric at? He probably remembers punch cards and vacuum tubes.

[turtle]

Well, since we are going all the way back... My first computer was an ADAM computer that used cassette tapes for media!

Secondary storage: Digital Data Pack tape cassette, 256 kB

I think my printer is smarter than this thing was. I did learn programming thanks to this computer though.

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.

[drewprops]

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.




...

[Kickaha]

Cap'n drew, I want your manbabies.

[kscherer]

Oh, oh, oh, can I name one?

Kicking Pirate

Yeah, that'll do just fine!

[turtle]

We are not worthy.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by drewprops 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.

Psst... Hey Drew... I might be able to help out here. I just fired up my old SheepShaver VM, and I still have a working Mac OS 9 here on my desktop. I even found a working copy of Norton DiskDoubler 4.1. I'd be happy to process some files for you. PM me if interested. It's probably easiest to shuffle the files back and forth over something like Dropbox.



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...

[drewprops]

...

[drewprops]

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!!!


...

[Chinney]

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.

[kscherer]

You know, I'd been feeling pretty young up until you bastards started this contest.

Go suck an egg, old farts!

[709]

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.

[kscherer]

Originally Posted by 709 Marathon Trilogy

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!

[709]

Originally Posted by kscherer Durandal is watching you!

I'm a Tycho apologist. Not gonna lie.

Originally Posted by kscherer I have all three, as well as Pathways into Darkness, which I actually think is the better game.

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?

[kscherer]

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.

[thegeriatric]

Originally Posted by kscherer And, no, Poodrops, I have not seen your dongle.

[thegeriatric]

Originally Posted by kscherer And where's the Geriatric at? He probably remembers punch cards and vacuum tubes.

Yes i remember punch cards, and if by vacuum tubes you mean Valves then yes to that also.

[drewprops]

Originally Posted by thegeriatric Yes i remember punch cards, and if by vacuum tubes you mean Valves then yes to that also.

I want more.

A story!

A story!



...

[Kickaha]

[kscherer]

Say us the tell!

[Luca]

Originally Posted by 709 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?

I'm sure you know that you can play the entire Marathon series on OS X, but I don't blame you for keeping an old Mac around anyway. They're fun.

I mean just look at this: