Here is a scarey thought for many of you: There are full motion flight simulators out there, training pilots, that are running on Gould computers using tape, big cartridge drives, and yes, floppies.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Bill Humphries <nt...@hedgedigger.com>wrote: > I ave a friend that does prototyping and machining. his CNC machine reads > floppies. > > bill > > Bob Hartung wrote: > >> I feel your pain. We've got Mitsubishi press brakes that run some weird >> Japanese DOS, 2 Mitsubishi lasers that run Windows 95; $850 K machines and >> they run Windows 95 and yes, they have 3.5" floppy drive. At least the >> drives weren't 5.25". >> >> ---------------------- >> >> Bob Hartung >> Dir of I.T. >> Wisco Industries, Inc. >> 736 Janesville St. >> Oregon, WI 53575 >> Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 >> Fax: (608) 835-7399 >> e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ------------ >> *From:* N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> >> [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.**sunbelt-software.com<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> >> ] >> *Sent:* Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:24:58 -0500 >> *Subject:* RE: Possibly a brilliant mistake... >> >> >> Our last NEW laser we purchased a couple years ago still had and >> NT 4 based control. And I was actually excited that it wasn't IBM >> PC DOS. Praying the new tube laser we get in Jan will be one of >> the fancy new XP controls. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com >> <mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:17 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake... >> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Jafs >> <stefan.j...@gmail.com <mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com>**> wrote: >> > I can't remember last time I used a floppy drive! >> >> You obviously don't work with much automated test equipment or >> industrial controls. :) >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.**com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> >> **> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.**com/read/my_forums/<http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> >> or send an email to >> listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> >> <mailto:listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> > >> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.**com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> >> **> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.**com/read/my_forums/<http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> >> or send an email to >> listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> >> <mailto:listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> > >> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.**com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> >> **> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.** >> com/read/my_forums/ <http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> >> or send an email to >> listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com><mailto: >> listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> > >> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.**com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > **> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.** > com/read/my_forums/ <http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> > or send an email to > listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
