[WriteLog] Hard Drive Failure, THANKS

Jerry Pixton jpixton at shentel.net
Sun Jul 11 09:10:06 EDT 2004


Ron,

Believe it or not, I still have sitting here in one of the desk drawers 
below my VHF rigs, all the cassette tapes that allowed me to store data and 
programs for my first computers. There is the whole operating system and a 
ham radio program that allowed my to do CW and RTTY on a Motorola 6809 
computer. HI

In the true ham spirit, I just have never thrown them away.

Jerry, W6IHG


At 11:08 PM 7/9/2004 -0400, Ron St.Laurent ND5S wrote:
>//snip//Fortunately in this case I could carefully backup most other drives
>but I
>had to put in two larger primary drives (an 80 Gbyte and a 160 Gbyte) 40
>Gbytes are not large enough to hold a bunch of Ghost images. I can remember
>when I thought 10 Megabytes was hugh!
>
>I remember getting my first IBM 128K machine.  I was also issued a 5 1/4"
>floppy diskette, as I recall it was 360K, and was told that "IF" I fill that
>I can go to stationary stores and check out another one.
>
>Ron ND5S

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