5.25in. Floppies

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Tue Jan 22 16:31:12 2002

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:

> > Is it just me, or is there something not-so-subtly ironic and
> >gratifying about a 450mHz desktop with a working 5.25 floppy drive
> >installed?
>
> my 750mhz Athlon has a 3.5/5.25 combo drive in it (both drives in a
> single half height 5.25 case). I don't think I have used the 5.25 half...
> but I put it in "just in case".
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>

Is is just me or isn't a 450-750 milli-hertz box rather slow? I've heard
of overclocking modern boxen, but underclocking by nine orders of
magnitude? God, and I thought my 8MHz Mac SE was slow... ;-)

-- Pat
Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 16:31:12 GMT

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