Sunday Meme Drop
16 responses to “Sunday Meme Drop”
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I’ve used 8″ floppies, 5.25″ floppies, and 3.5″ floppies. Although we wanted a different term for 3.5″ “floppies” since they were stiffer and didn’t flop like the 8 and 5.25 did.
One of the anti-piracy tricks done with 5.25″ was to put an unreadable sector on the disk. To get around this, we’d put a piece of Scotch tape on the floppy hanging out the drive door. We then had a program that would write to the bad sector while we pulled on the tape, slowing down the drive, creating a bad sector. Good times.
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I still have a computer that accepts cassette tapes . Sounds like dial-up if you put them in a cassette tape player.
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Ned–Nice!
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Making brunch better, every Sunday!
(the bloody mary’s weren’t bad either)
Wow 5 Star Trek TNG memes, 4 of which are Gowron specific, And one that referenced the movie Office Space. Thank You I feel fulfilled now.
Today’s batch is very funny.
My severe case of lethologica interferes with my ability to name the type of bolt I just found in my junk bucket that I need 3 more of….
“Chainmail Booty Shorts”. Now y’all know what I want for Christmas.
Father shouting in Klingon reminded me of a story about police being sent to a trailer home because some people suspected the father of child abuse. Cops couldn’t talk to the kids because the kids only spoke Klingon.
What next – obviously you drink them both up.
Unferth–That’s absolutely brilliant!
WDS–Thank you (and I am sure the bloody mary’s helped)!
MrHappy–You’re welcome. I try!
Charles–Glad you like!
Busted–Well played….
Matthew–I vote every man gets chainmail booty shorts for Christmas.
Frank–That’s actually pretty cool in a nerd way. And of course that’s next! 😉
Unferth – I’ve used all those, and the 3″ floppies, as well.
Midwest Chick – I’ll pass on the chainmail booty shorts; I suspect they’ll pinch something horrible.
As for lethologica, I suspect that I’ll soon be telling someone that there’s a word for temporarily being unable to come up with a word for something that I can describe, but I can’t remember it.
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wheels–Yep. And I bet you don’t want certain things pinched. Definitely worth throwing that out there for kicks and grins.
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Re: Chainmail booty shorts: I was more thinking you wouldn’t want to wear them in cold weather.
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crazyeighter–Kind of like a brass bra….
The 5.25″ floppies came in single sided or double sided (called flippies because you turned them over to use the other side). I had a tool that would punch a square hole where the write protect notch would be on a single sided floppy, to turn it into a double sided. There were also “single density” and “double density” floppies.
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Mark–I remember doing the same.
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