First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Sat Dec 15 20:46:17 UTC 2001


On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> Jecel Assumpcao Jr (2001-12-15 16:18):
>
> > On Friday 14 December 2001 21:26,  "Justin Walsh" wrote:
> >
> > Too bad my old Mac clone doesn't have a network connection and newer
> > Macs have no floppy drives, so I can't copy these somewhere safer
> > before they go bad :-(
>
> You're running KMail, and if you don't run it on Mac hardware,
> you should also have a floppy and hfsutils, so that's no excuse :-)

It is an excuse, unfortunately.  He said it was on 400K diskettes, a
format (along with 800K) that, to my knowledge, only Macs can read.  To a
PC floppy drive, a 400/800K disks are bunk.

Regards,
Aaron

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