Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be > sure. But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's > design by the infinite monkey method. You have insulted an infinite number of monkeys. IBM used to publish the source codes for their BIOS in the little 3-ring b

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: >> There are at least four different meanings of "floppy" in use here > >  I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how > much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread David Hardy
To add to the general levity and amusement here, OS/2 is actually still extant in some corners of the giant IBM complex up here in northern Vermont. And our issue laptops are Lenovo Thinkpads, with XP or 7, but we can, with permission, put Red Hat, Fedora or Ubuntu on them. IBM is heavy on Red H

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote: >>   I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how >> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is. > > The IBM PC was released in 1981.  You expected something other than > "kludges"? Heh. Anything old will have

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Jon "maddog" Hall
> I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how > much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is. The IBM PC was released in 1981. You expected something other than "kludges"? md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > There are at least four different meanings of "floppy" in use here I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is. I'm now far more confused than I was when I started. So

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: > I agree. I don't think my Apple ][ floppies were partitioned. Back in > the day there were a plethora of floppies. You had 8 in., 5 in. There > were a number of Word Processors in the 70s that used floppies. The PC > changed the landscape for both floppies and HDs, and als

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/31/2012 09:19 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Jerry Feldman > wrote: > > On 01/30/2012 05:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > On 1/30/12, Ben Scott > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im De

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 01/30/2012 05:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > On 1/30/12, Ben Scott wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe! > >> wrote: > What about `flopticals', LS-120s, etc.? > Were they partitioned like HDDs? > >>> Typ

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2012 05:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > On 1/30/12, Ben Scott wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe! >> wrote: What about `flopticals', LS-120s, etc.? Were they partitioned like HDDs? >>> Typically, no. Neither were any of the various tape devices that >>> use