Quick #retrocomputing question...
Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!
Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.
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Quick #retrocomputing question...
Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!
Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.
Quick #retrocomputing question...
Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!
Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.
News from the #Floppy #Museum!
A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!
Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.
And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.
Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D
News from the #Floppy #Museum!
A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!
Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.
And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.
Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D
Breaking News: "Attendees are expected to refuse street bail, requiring more people to be taken into custody, and they plan to go “floppy”, forcing officers to physically carry them away."
The term 'Floppy' is now going mainstream it seems 😎 ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/palestine-action-protest-london-police-b2821455.html
Time to relax with some MIDI floppies. I hope I remembered to rewind them 😄
Context: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/114932544350156869
Floppy STL model based on @NanoRaptor design: https://www.printables.com/model/1368681-rewind-your-floppy-disk-a-nanoraptor-design
CD jewel case floppy tray STL model: https://www.printables.com/model/1365838-35-floppy-disk-jewel-case-insert
Time to relax with some MIDI floppies. I hope I remembered to rewind them 😄
Context: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/114932544350156869
Floppy STL model based on @NanoRaptor design: https://www.printables.com/model/1368681-rewind-your-floppy-disk-a-nanoraptor-design
CD jewel case floppy tray STL model: https://www.printables.com/model/1365838-35-floppy-disk-jewel-case-insert
New video! Repairing the Panasonic JU-253-043P floppy disk drive from my Amiga 600.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/jDxcNkC2J8w
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/5JSaGyYfmVYdxxEBQFxzPa
#Amiga#Commodore #A600#Amiga600#DiskDrive#Floppy#FloppyDiskDrive#Repair#Alignment#Recapping#Panasonic#ESR#Capacitor
New video! Repairing the Panasonic JU-253-043P floppy disk drive from my Amiga 600.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/jDxcNkC2J8w
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/5JSaGyYfmVYdxxEBQFxzPa
#Amiga#Commodore #A600#Amiga600#DiskDrive#Floppy#FloppyDiskDrive#Repair#Alignment#Recapping#Panasonic#ESR#Capacitor
In a couple of hours I managed to recover a huge part of data from an erased #floppy .
I made flux copy and loaded it to HxceFloppyEmulator, those are the first two images.
I managed to recover a lot of data with the software RecoveryWhiskers that I am writing.
I found some data that looks like a German MS-DOS 6 boot disk with Doublespace.
The file system data was properly blanked before it was erased (it's all blank data, I can verify from the flux view).
The way I recovered data is to slow down the the disk manually. I am baffled myself how well that worked.
New #blog post: I miss the days of ubiquitous portable data storage
https://rldane.space/i-miss-the-days-of-ubiquitous-portable-data-storage.html
653 words
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx@twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #USB #ThumbDrives #MassStorage #RemovableMedia #Floppy #CD #DVD
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