Floppy Disk discontinued after 30 Years

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nordlead said:

TWRoO said:
^I have pretty much no idea what you just said.

terms in your post I have never heard of/don't understand:

"aub" - no clue, sounds like an older program written in perl
perl - scripting language used to automate the process.
uudecode - I think this is a typo for undecode
mtools (unless that was a typing error) - a tool set available on unix/linux machines for manipulating discs using microsofts dos file storage format
Risc Station - RISC is a type of processor. So say a PC using a PowerPC CPU rather than an Intel CPU
ED FDD (FDD = Floppy Disc Drive, but what's ED?) - no clue
Syquest - a brand of removeable hard disk drives.
MO drives - Magneto-Optical drives. Mini-Disc was a Magneto-Optical disc. They could hold a few GB of data.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

It was commonly used to post binary files in Usenet, encoded as text.