Comments on: Some Old Disks http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/ You Other Brothers Might Deny Tue, 29 May 2012 07:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pete Hindle http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-143 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:01:10 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-143 Thanks Arto – I thought of you when I read this comic, so I’m glad that you’ve busted free!

]]> By: Arto http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-142 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:19:41 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-142 Nah, that’s past now. World of game testing is so last year, I’m back at Simonside Terrace. Star and Shadow, A freelance gig and procrastination fills my days and nights at the moment…

Yea, when ever you roam yourself back up here then do make some smoke signals or similar so we can catch up. Get well man!

]]> By: Pete Hindle http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-141 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:24:07 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-141 Those big, old disks are also called floppy disks… confusing, because they were floppy, and the smaller, newer ones weren’t actually floppy. Mmore sort of ‘solid’.

(And good to hear from you Arto! Are you still working in Ireland? Hopefully we can catch up when I make it back to Newcastle.)

]]> By: Arto http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-140 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:20:54 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-140 Brings back memories from childhood. Dad used to go to Paris due to work. He’d usually, if we(moi and bro) were behaving, bring back some computer games – in french of course, which did create a problem or several during gameplay. Anyway, usually these games were in floppy disks or if things looked grim they came with in the older format – the black, broad and thinner – don’t know the English equivalent for it. Luckily daddy-o could copy cross formats at work, so we weren’t completely screwed and gaming could continue…

Btw. Hope you’re well now, gonna read forward now and see what has happened.

]]> By: iris http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-139 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:53:39 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-139 That’s pretty impressive…. sealed in 1996 air… sweet (musty) smell of indie britpop…. all we have in defunct IT wears is a box of tapes for the ZX Spectrum…Including Dizzy’s Treasure Island. Classic.

]]> By: brendadada http://petehindle.com/2009/12/17/some-old-disks/#comment-138 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:14:04 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=337#comment-138 I’ve got an original padded pack of System 7 floppies, and a slot-in zip drive for a Wall St Powerbook. Utterly useless.

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