>>>>You still receive DVDs. Hmm my friend had to download everything. Perhaps it's because you're an MVP and MS thinks that you shouldn't have to waste your time over this? ;-)
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>>>When I set up my MSDN subscription, I could specify whether I wanted DVDs or wanted to download stuff. I don't imagine that's an MVP-only option (although I could be wrong). Perhaps your friend neglected to specify the DVD option?
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>>When I set up mine it was CD only :-}
>>Can't remember (as you may have guessed (g)) when DVDs first became available - I know a stuck with CD's for a while before switching....
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>I'm sure you remember when software was delivered on 720 MB floppy disks ;-) (Which weren't actually floppy). The alpha dog was the OS/2 SDK, which came on dozens of diskettes with about six linear feet of manuals.

I seem to remember Windows 3.1 using more the a couple of dozen 3 1/2" disks.......
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>For a couple of years in the early 1980s I used a program called Fastback to back up my hard drive -- 20 MB, oh, you beast! -- to floppies. Talk about a laborious process. Usually I would do it while watching a Chicago Bulls game. The Bulls and Michael Jordan were in their heyday. I would watch a game while swapping floppies, and hope to be done by the time the game was.

I remember buying my first floppy drive for home use (must have been on a TRS80). The drive cost well over $200 - disk capacity 100K !
I also remember developing a custom app for someone that ran on 2x 8" floppies (1.2Mb each?) and the drive units alone cost about 2K.

I also use an old Plessey core plane as a paperweight in the office. Total capacity 16x24 bits (ie 48 bytes - you can look through the perspex cover and count them.). Total size is 7"x7"x 1.5" - not including the handle.

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>The funny thing is that a few years from now people will have similar memories of the way we do things now. Which is one of the things I love about this line of work. It never stops changing and evolving. One of my images of hell is driving rivets for 40 years, every day the same as the day before and the year before.

Well over the course of 40 years I assume you'd at least get to put different rivets into different things :-}

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>I started a new job (contract) last week, as one of three guys supporting a VFP / SQL Server app which runs a good part of their business. So far, so great. The developers and our manager work in one big room, which is part of the scrum / agile mindset. (We don't have projects, we have 30 day sprints; we don't have tasks, we have stories. Still working on mind-melding with all that). There is one Indian lady who sits over in the corner and quietly works on some new C#.NET stuff they are doing. I am always very nice to her ;-) You never know....

"....we don't have tasks, we have stories"
Sounds more like a kindergarten (g,d&r)
Good luck with the job (where does the C# fit in to the existing stuff?)
Best,
Viv