Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-08 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 May 2012 16:38, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> >>> Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a >>> shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. >> >>

Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a >> shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. > > > Yes. :) > > I was mostly a OS/2 Warp 4.x zealot b

Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a > shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. > Yes. :) I was mostly a OS/2 Warp 4.x zealot by then,but yes, I got to play with BeOS (4.5 if I remember correctly)

BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Good pointer Ian. And thanks everyone else who also replied. In the end, I > decided not to lose any more time with this (after all, all I wanted to do > was backing up an ancient BeOS install diskettte to a diskette image file), > and proce