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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:13:03 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint
Message-ID:  <199511210813.IAA22170@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au> from "Mark Newton" at Nov 21, 95 04:12:29 pm

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Mark Newton stands accused of saying:
> 
> Michael Smith wrote:
>  > I can do that, if I can find the guy around here with the card hardware.
> 
> <laugh>  You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD.
> Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards?
> :-)

Argh, insulted publically too!  I did too have it working; it just wouldn't
write to the tape properly 8(

And it works just fine as a table now.  That only took a few hours with a 
screwdriver to remove the unneccessary bits 8)

> [ I prefer front-panel toggle switches myself... ]

You would 8)

> Mark Newton                               Email: newton@communica.com.au

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