Subj : Retro Computing
To   : Chai
From : Derision
Date : Sun Nov 18 2018 12:36 pm

 Re: Retro Computing
 By: Chai to Derision on Wed Nov 14 2018 15:29:00

> I just popped in a floppy disk into Windows 10 (latest update).
> Formatting, copying, chkdsk, all still works with floppies.
> I imagine Windows will one day omit the ability to work with floppies,
> but it's kinda cool that it's still there.  I'm honestly surprised that
> they still support it, and I'm not surprised that Apple does not.

I found it a bit annoying when macOS stopped bothering with it. I mean, they've
bloated the rest of the OS to Vista levels of bloat, while still deleting
useful features.

> It's interesting to me that CP/M is still being used in production
> environments.

One of the things I was tasked with was figuring out what to do if the one
computer that runs the ledger goes down, since none of the machines made today
will run CP/M out of the box; and also to figure out what to do if the ancient
Okidata dot matrix printer they used to print it out ever goes south. Priner
was easy -- Okidata still makes them, though they're like $900. Finding a
machine that'll run dBase on CP/M was a little more complicated, but amounted
to running it in an emulator and getting a second-hand Commodore 128 off eBay.

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