{"id":4706,"date":"2015-08-13T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2015-08-13T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:48:04","slug":"heavy-duty-floppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4706","title":{"rendered":"Heavy duty floppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to take my little fellas to the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Historic Site recently, a site which I&#8217;ve visited multiple times.\u00a0 I wrote a magazine article about this site when it first opened, and for that article I was able to spend the entire day below ground in the capsules taking photos.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been back since from time to time, but this was the first opportunity I had to bring my kids with me.\u00a0 This time I spotted a couple of things I hadn&#8217;t looked at closely before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_floppy_35157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_floppy_35157.jpg\" alt=\"lcm_floppy_35157\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_floppy_35157.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_floppy_35157-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_floppy_35157-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Yes, it&#8217;s a heavy duty floppy drive.\u00a0 There are actually two in this rack, mounted side by side.\u00a0 I must admit I&#8217;m actually impressed that it looks like a 5 1\/4&#8243; drive, not the old 8&#8243; drives that I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_modem_35156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_modem_35156.jpg\" alt=\"lcm_modem_35156\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_modem_35156.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_modem_35156-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/08\/lcm_modem_35156-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>And how about this?\u00a0 A modem!\u00a0 Another term that most people don&#8217;t hear often, unless they&#8217;re cable internet subscribers.\u00a0 Even then, we&#8217;re talking about baud versus megabit these days.\u00a0 I remember 300baud or bps in my freshman year of college&#8230;that was painful.\u00a0 Compare that with the 70+ megabit service that I enjoy in my home office now, and it makes it seem like I was computing via telegraph!<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show that there&#8217;s always an opportunity to encounter, and be fascinated by, something you&#8217;ve previously missed.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to look at many more photos from this intriguing historic site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2114\" target=\"_blank\">click here for the photos from my first trip to the newly-opened site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to take my little fellas to the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Historic Site recently, a site which I&#8217;ve visited multiple times.\u00a0 I wrote a magazine article about this site when it first opened, and for that &hellip; 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