Security & Theft Securing tractor from theft

[2manyrocks]

This thread started out about securing tractors from theft and now it's moved to floppy drives? Next it will be IBM selectrics and Royal typewriters----------creatively used as front weights.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You mean like REAL floppy disks which were 8 inch?

Note for youthful readers: 5 1/4 inch floppy diskettes started out with about 360K single sided single density.

REAL floppy disks (8 inch IBM 3740 format) had 251K storage and were single sided single density.

Probably more obsolete than button hooks for high button shoes.

Pat

I still got one of them old 8"floppy's somewhere, PDP11

 

[patrick_g]

And from the peanut gallery:

The performer again leaps upon the boards. His cloak of many sides swirls about his ankles. As he strides forth dispensing "My opinion only is allowed" the cloak of many sides inadvertently grasps his prancing feet and deposits him face down in front of the lowly peanut gallery audience. Slowly, slowly he recovers his limited facilities and makes haste to the curtains for shelter from the diatribes of the lowly he rails against.

Being a duly relegated member of the peanut gallery can be interesting and does have benefits.

EXCELLENT

Yes, being in the PG has benefits, low risk and high upside for entertainment opportunities.

PG, er ahh, I mean Pat_G

 

[gemini5362]

IM not a peanut if I am anything it is a full sized nut

 

[gemini5362]

This thread started out about securing tractors from theft and now it's moved to floppy drives? Next it will be IBM selectrics and Royal typewriters----------creatively used as front weights.

Great Idea i am sure they can be bought cheaper than front end weights and probably about the same weight.

 

[Soundguy]

I got a couple setting in our office supply shed.. and yep.. they are some good dead weight.

soundguy

 

[texasjohn]

I'll see your 8" floppy and raise you two complete boxes of 80 column punched cards (er.. actually unpunched cards)

OK... who's got punched tape??

 

[Soundguy]

Hey now.. food for a card walloper!

soundguy

 

[GilaSlim]

I'll see your 8" floppy and raise you two complete boxes of 80 column punched cards (er.. actually unpunched cards)

OK... who's got punched tape??

Got you covered. Contains a program to compute electric bills on an IBM 1620. 1620 was cabled to an IBM 1401 for meter read card I/O and mag tapes.

In the late '70s, I did a payroll system for a remote site on a 3741 with those giant disks. Dialup connection to mainframe to upload results.

GS

 

[texasjohn]

Well, bless my little BCD heart.... there's a fellow who knows how to

1 read a card (from 100 to 179 on a 1401)
2 punch a card (from 200 to 279 on a 1401)

with a little word mark here and word mark there
an early card read here and early card write there
he knows how to get the best thruput anywhere

If some of y'all don't understand the above, it's OK... GS and I are in our own little world