Misc: September 2009 Archives

IBM 10SR MOD II

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How old were you 1987?
10srmodii.JPGI was 16 years old and I had my Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy disk and 170 kilobytes was a big storage for me, a guy used to cassette tapes to store computer data.
In real business, hard disks already carried hundreds of megabytes and were big - yes big. One of these "disks" was brought in by my esteemed collegue who got it from a bank some years ago where these platters ran for 12 years without any problems.

I took some pictures of this machine and I am pleased to show them to you.

Manufacturing date is 1987, the "mod I" had 200 Megabytes, but this is a "mod II", I think it had 300 Megabytes.

This hard disk can now be visited at the computing center of the University of Konstanz, central hall in building V, 5th floor.




No more Yahoo IM for old clients

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Yahoo closed its messaging servers yesterday for older clients using older versions of the protocol.

Kopete of KDE 3.5 is one of these.

The trend to force users to use the proprietary bloated clients is getting stronger.

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