Maybe they had a different defintion of what constituted "flying,"
especially since no one had done it before.

George A. Thompson
Editor in Chief
HP Professional Magazine


> ----------
> From:         Trudeau, James L[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Trudeau, James L
> Sent:         Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:03 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Off Topic: 2MB Floppy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:16 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Re: Off Topic: 2MB Floppy
> >
> <snip>
>
> > This is really the core of the problem. Technology moves on -- and at
> the
> > moment never really gets a chance to grab a substantially majority of
> the
> > market to dictate that the "current" standard be supported any more than
> > just
> > a few years -- before the next "wave of the future" arrives on the
> scene.
> > Sony's 1.44MB original format had that chance -- and because of it --
> > became a
> > defacto standard that "had to be" supported.
> >
> > Wirt Atmar
> >
> Howdy,
>
> So I decided to test the latest tech stuff.  I took an "old tech" 1.44
> floppy and
> a "new tech" 120 Mb floppy and put them on the floor side by side.  I then
> stomped each one an equal number of times.  Now neither the old tech nor
> the new tech works at all.  I therefore conclude that both techs are
> useless
> techs and we need some really new techs.  Plus the guy I stole the
> floppies
> from for testing is mad at me.  Wouldn't listen when I tried to explain
> that
> it
> was all in the interest of advancing technology.
>
> Speaking of which I see that NASA or the Smithsonian or someone is doing
> wind tunnel tests of the Wright brothers plane to try and figure out how
> it
> ever
> flew at all.
>
> Jim Trudeau
>