jmcunx
@jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org
Developer in a large company on AIX and SAP. I use both OpenBSD, NetBSD and Slackware as test systems for my work on AIX (plus for my own personal use)
- Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks 12 hours ago:
Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.
USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware “virises”. On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)
- Comment on After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip 2 months ago:
I remember working in a warehouse that stored many ICs when I was very young. IIRC, Zilog packaging was quite good. Some other brands packages would crack or open up if nor handled with “kid gloves”. This brings back memories,
- Comment on What are people using to host blogs on SDF? 8 months ago:
I decided to move to gemini on SDF. It us far easier to maintain and you can use any editor to add/change files.
- Comment on What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? 9 months ago:
A couple:
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CRC Errors when restoring 9-track tapes (the large reels) on a mini at work.
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A manager not knowing a removable 256meg Disk Pack suffered a heard crash. So he mounted it on 4 or 5 production drives, destroying the hardware. This caused almost a month of agony while we went looking for hardware to replace the drives. This caused manufacturing to slow down since inventory could not be ordered.
I can almost laugh now :)
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