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Yup, except on industrial PCs :-(

However, sometimes I get into the odd situation where something croaks that had been designed in the 80's, the designer is gone or has passed away and the code is on 5-1/4" floppies. Or worse, on 8" floppies.

Then you have to send it to some data service but if this is the only copy that always leaves an iffy knot in the stomach until the floppy is back. We just found out that numerous Christmas mailings somehow didn't make it, mostly to Europe including one package :-(

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Oh man, you must watch tons of movies. I wouldn't even know when to do that.

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But look at the bright side: It had that feature. Those 404's were built like tanks. On my Citroen cranking was quite normal. Phutah ... phutah ... *POOF* ... phutah ... VROOOOM. You just had to make sure nobody with light-colored clothes or a shiny white car was behind it.

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I seem to recall your mentioning having an exercise bike in the basement that gets some use...? :-)

But there is no DVD player and also I use that time to watch news in Spanish, in hopes that I get the hang of that some day. Would come in real handy at clients.

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Oh yeah! Thumb above, and hand so flat that it has enough power to push but no more, else you wrist would swell up and hurt for days.

Reminds me of a guy who proudly rode up to the Aachen market place (my university town in Germany). Small guy, on a huge Harley. When it was time to leave he jumped onto the kick starter. Phhhutaaah ... silence. Some expletives followed. So he jumped a little harder. Phutah ...

*BANG* ... guy flew over the handle bar.

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Yes I've done a few code transfers from old disks to USB sticks. At least the data can be transferred where needed.

I got caught out with an auto lathe recently. No disk drives at all and only a USB + Ethernet interface. The control PC didn't have USB. I ended up putting a netcard in the PC and making a Xover cable up.

My remaining single sided 8" drive died sometime ago. The head caught a bad case of rust. I did clean it, without any success.

I have a couple of new 5.25" 1.2Mb drives and several s/h 360K ones. Though I suspect that the s/h ones may have gone the same way as the

8".

Yes I've been waiting for a couple of items to arrive from the USA that haven't yet turned up, also one from Germany that should have been here

4 weeks ago. However that one has been re-sent so I've been told. But its not turned up yet.

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On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:31:13 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Much better to take some real lessons, or get a *DVD* with lessons, and actually learn something, like I did for Portuguese. You can watch teevee all your life and never know how to write a single word. Try German for example, you should know that.

You do not need a bike to exercise if you have a real job :-) And here now it is clearing snow again -:)

Any house without a DVD player I would consider low tech. These days it is blu-ray, and if you are that far, 3D with 3D monitors.

But I am aware you still have a car with manual gear.. getting old? LOL

On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:41:13 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Those are not all movies :-)

On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:43:28 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Cranking was not so easy when somebody had parked right in front of you, also I once was in Rotterdam and had it parked front next to that river... hehe :-)

Perhaps somewhat ironically there's kinda an inverse relation between "physical jobs" and "pay" these days. Well, unless you get into something a bit dangerous like mining or underwater welding.

I'm thinking it'll be at least 2012 before Joerg gets a Blu-Ray player. I don't think he'll be missing much. :-)

---Joel

Boring. Motivation goes to pots if it's not something real. This is what I am eternally thankful for, when our English teachers tossed all that canned stuff and brought in actual newspapers.

That is how I learned Dutch. After a while I could begin to speak it. Writing is indeed more tricky. One fine day I took a temp job at an electronics design place, hoping I can write the module specs in English as usual. Nope! Sweat beads showed up on my forehead. But since I had read Dutch newspapers for over a year I could actually do it. This was in the days before computers so a secretary type it up.

The lead engineer proof-read my stuff. Said it was quite good but that I had used too much street-Dutch. So he corrected it. Then the topper: The Dutch (!) secretary put nearly all my flaws back in there :-)

BTW, my first more lengthy Dutch reading was the book "Vonkenboer". Only seasoned people would know that one ...

Tehn we were low-tech until three years ago.

Nah, we have no use for "modern" movies. I like stuff with Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson etc.

It's the only real thing :-)

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On a sunny day (Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:21:18 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

I have been technical writer English for a big Dutch military company, had to make documentation from the lab reports. But a secretary typed it out... and fixed the spelling, we wrote with pencil on paper! But in my school days they did not think I would ever speak any other language then Dutch.. It helped to have lived in the UK and US.

Ojee, now at least that is technical :-)

No DVD player in the PC either? How did you install stuff?

mm, lemme see: bring_me_the_head_of_alfredo_garcia_german.ts west-side-story-german.pes bond-largo-start-missing.ts star_wreck_in_the_pirkinning_subtitled.wmv independence_day_german.ts Rio-lolo.pes the_matrix_german.ts babe-watch.pes Adios-zapata.ts Summer-holiday-cliff-richard.ts eldorado_start_missing.ts Captain_Horatio_Hornblower_RN.ts Flash_Gordon.ts goldfinger.ts the_three_amigos.ts you_only_live_twice.ts the_shadow.ts waterworld.ts blues_brothers.ts Bring_me_the_head_of_alfredo_garcia.ts the_vanishing.ts startrek_the_movie.ts lord_of_the_rings_part3_dutch_subtitles_dvb-t_glitches.ts getaway.ts thunderball.ts tank-girl.pes tremors.ts godzilla.ts the_andromeda_strain.ts hero_directors_cut.ts ritter_aus_leidenshaft.ts the_italian_connection_german.ts kangaroo_jack_german.ts welcome_to_the_jungle_german.ts bond_die_an_other_day.ts leathal_weapon_2_german.ts the_fifth_element.ts a_rock_and_roll_fable_german.ts terminator_3_german.ts dr.strangelove_normal_and_narrated.ts starwars_IV.ts starwars_VI_the_return_of_the_jedi_fighters.ts cliff_richard_finders_keepers_german.ts starwars_I.ts starwars_III-part2.ps starwars_III-part1.ps starwars_II.ts hitchikers_guide_to_the_galaxy.ts payback.ts cat_ballou.ts phantom_commando_german.ts hard_days_night_german.ts escape_to_athena.ts license_to_kill.ts the_china_syndrome.ts the_wild_bunch.ts welcome_to_the_jungle.ts red_river.ts logans_run.ts kermits_swamp_years.ts king_solomons_mines.ts startrek_kirk.ts terminator_II_judgement_day.ts flying_tigers_1946_start_missinsg.ts unter_pirate_flagge_captain_blood.ts the_sting.ts ein_mannn_der_tat__flynn.ts ballistic_german.ts the_appaloo.ts the_law_and_jake_wade.ts bullet_proof.ts bandidas_german.ts the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_extended_english_version.ts blue_thunder.ts severance_german.ts mars_attacks.ts moonraker_english.ts the_spy_who_loved_me_english.ts scheibenwelts.ts the_driver.ts break_from_jail_and_money.ts hot_shots_german.ts police_academy_4.ts franky_and_johnny_elvis.ts smoky_and_the_bandit.ts hot-shots-2-german.ts money_train.ts riders_german.ts der_stern_von_santa_clara.ts seagal_stealth.ts I_witness.ts under_siege_2.ts woodstock_part1.ts woodstock_part2.ts stargate.ts commando_1985.ts desert.ts lara_croft_the_cradle_of_life.ts cradle_2_the_grave.ts spy_game_german.ts

13_rue_madeleine.ts starwars_episode_V_the_empire_strikes_back.ts der_einsatz_german.ts golden_eye_german.ts the_rocketeer.ts the_world_is_not_enough_german.ts cutthroat_island.ts eartsea_german.ts terminator_1_german.ts spiderman_german.ts the_cannonball_run_1981.ts the_dukes_of_hazard.ts happy_feet.ts

Na, it is like a FM radio without preselect buttons and AFC.

hehe :-)

Olumbers don't seem to be doing too bad.

I doubt I'll have one by then. ...and we watch a lot of TV/movies. Don't see the point.

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Certainly. But only in places that are deeply mired into using it.

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