Russell, I read some of it. It is cool. It sounds to me that you were tied=20 in with a university or some other organization along those lines. You=20 had an in that the average person didn't have. I can read those disks. I=20 have a 5.25 drive installed in one of my computers. It is a 1.2MB drive.=20 I also have some 360KB drives but they aren't installed in a system. Thanks for the info, rich! P.S. During that day and age I was Amiga's! rich! On 6/16/2014 2:11 AM, RussellMc wrote: > On 16 June 2014 18:26, RussellMc wrote: > >> Just for 'fun'. >> My oldest extant internet footprint AFAIK. >> >> >> http://files.chatnfiles.com/SPACE_Astronomy_1093/TEXT/SPACEDIG/V16_1/V16= NO184.TXT >> >> > That's the oldest post of mine that I've been able to find, but on > reflection, my earliest internet connection was well prior to that. > My wife points out that we have been here about 28 years and I was intern= et > connected at the prior house. > Say 29 or 30 years - 1984 - 1985 ish. > > What state was "the net" in then. > I probably have some 360 kB floppy diskettes here that would have related > material on them. Reading them may be another matter :-) > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .