The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

jrv — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:02:59 GMT

Banyan Vines. Pure Unix and could run Oracle before any other PC hardware system was able to do it.

How about Telebit Trailblazer modems en.wikipedia.org/.../Telebit

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

NedPyle [MSFT] — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:50:08 GMT

Bow your heads for Banyan Vines VIP...

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

sgrinker — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:45:58 GMT

Wow, just imagine the fumes if you actually did set that ablaze!

Can we have a moment of silence for all the protocols that are no longer with us?

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sgrinker — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:25:32 GMT

"authentic 'whooshing' sounds" ...nice :D

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NedPyle [MSFT] — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:27:29 GMT

Everything old is new again, Steve.

www.mattycollector.com/.../productID.247060500

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

sgrinker — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:21:17 GMT

Gotta love the growth rate of technology! We talk about things like they were from the 1950's or 20's, that were around sometimes less than 20-30 years ago. I found myself saying "back in the day" a few weeks ago about something too. Although at the same time, Back the Future II was on the other day, and I had to laugh at the "future" vision from 1989. Good stuff.

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TheContemplator — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:55:22 GMT

Wow, an audio card with a dedicated joystick port. It reminds me of my SoundBlaster 16, circa 1992. I used it to play Wolfenstein and DOOM on a Pentium-I based desktop. I recall the card used the ISA connector and was the length of the computer chassis (i.e., HUGE!) It had a new novelty on the back of it too: an IDE port that I used to connect my first internal CD-ROM drive. Ah, the memories.

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

DavidReller — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:55:54 GMT

Ned - Yep, I think my Jaz drive lasted maybe 2 years before it just croaked. In retrospect, it was a terrible investment in a proprietary storage device. Lesson learned.

LA - I think Iomega was trying to provide a product that had the ease of tape backup, the flexibility of a hard drive, and greater capacity than other consumer options. It was a good option for consumers wanting more than the capacity of a Zip drive, but a poor option for businesses. I thought the Jaz drive was great circa 1996, back in the days of 100MB hard drives, before the burnable CD/DVD and flash storage obliterated any reason to use a Jaz drive.

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LA Richards — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:53:15 GMT

Whoa, I didn't think people actually used Jazz drives.

re: The yuck that is "PC Recycle Day" at Microsoft

NedPyle [MSFT] — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:50:29 GMT

Here you go Ryan: iomega.com/data-recovery

:-P