Re: probs with floppy drive 10.3

Mark South wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:45:11 -0500, Broderick Crawford ilililililil wrote:

What's a floppy drive?

It's what we used to save files on when our computers were still
steam-driven.

Back then I had several programs on one floppy disk, and one floppy was
good for a month's worth of documents. Now I get emails with attached
documents > 10MiB every day.
.

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