BREAKING NEWS : In a display of peak #nerdom, the Berkeley brigade gathered to mourn a glorified electric typewriter . Paying homage to ucbvax, the real question is: did they sacrifice a #floppy disk?
http://ucbvax.berkeley.edu/passing-of-ucbvax.txt #breakingnews #berkley #electrictypewriter #disk #tribute #HackerNews #ngated

Flauntin' my wealth

Finally got the whole floppy family: 8", 5.25" and 3.5"
#retro #retrocomputing #floppy

Auf der Revision habe ich übrigens auch meinen #Gotek #Floppy #Emulator Adapter für den #Amstrad #CPC664 auf Printables hochgeladen. Falls ihr also einen Gotek in euren CPC 664 einbauen wollt: https://www.printables.com/model/1269141-gotek-floppy-emulator-adapter-for-the-amstrad-cpc

A few years back someone came up with a standard that re-purposed the housing of 3.5" floppies as an enclosure and format for flash memory.

This included a pogo-pin standard pinout for SD, USB (or SATA?) interface accessed via the shutter hole.

Not like the "512GB floppy" which merely stores microSD cards. This formed a cartridge that could be loaded into a reader like a floppy.

Given you can fit 8GB+ on even budget MicroSD cards, such a format could store terabytes.

Does anyone recall that project?

USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040202110812/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

#HackerNews #USB #Floppy #Disk #Striped #RAID #OS #X #2004 #TechHistory #RetroComputing

Versuche gerade meinen #CPC664 mit einem #Gotek #Floppy #Emulator auszustatten. Habe die letzten paar Tage deshalb fleißig #FreeCAD genutzt und eine Halterung entworfen. Jetzt muss nur noch der Deckel passen und die Tastaturfolie funktionieren (da gehen derzeit wieder einige Tasten nicht . #Amstrad #Schneider

My pet peeve:

these maxell #floppy disks.

They're trouble, even if the surface is clean, they don't read well. Sometimes they read after a few tries, sometimes not.

Hello fellow #floppy fans! Through some fiddling and optimisation I've freed up about 180KB of space on http://floppy.museum and need something to fill it with.

Since my brain is pretty much empty at the moment, I would be very grateful for any ideas the Fediverse could offer. Some ground rules:

• It needs to fit in the space given (duh!)
• It needs to be relevant to floppies and/or #retrocomputing
• It can be software (yet another service), in which case it must run under #MSDOS on a 286, and should have moderate memory requirements (some EMS and XMS is OK, but at most 380KB conventional..)
• It can be art (but don't expect me to create any, so the license must permit this usage)
• Should not require modern browsers of hardware to access/enjoy

Ideas floated so far:

• Gopher server (problem: how to convert html to gopher pages; yes I've tried, no it's not easy)
• Rmenu (a telnet server allowing running of commands on the machine)
• Samantha Fox GIFs

Spread the word and give me ideas! The sillier the better!

#Retrocomputing #286 #PerformanceArt

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! :)

#100DaysToOffload #18

lucid beach85' – a letter from guangzhou
#Electronic #ambient #drone #floppy #floppydisk #lofi #posteverything #postwhatever #slushwave #vaporwave #webpunk #Paris
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/a-letter-from-guangzhou

> Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But Here They Are Anyway)

https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521

My first #PC was a 486 machine with two #floppy drives. A: was the little-used 5¼ DSHD drive, and B: was the 3½ HD drive that saw the vast majority of use.

I only learned decades later that this was the opposite of the usual setup, in which A: is the 3½ drive.

I wonder why the builder went with this arrangement?

I wonder if a sufficiently large #RAID 0 array of #floppy drives could match the throughput of an #SSD, and if so, how many drives it would take.

Let's see…

The Crucial T705 does sequential IO at 13387 MB/s, or 109666304 kbps. A floppy drive can do sequential IO at 250 kbps.

So, an array of 438665 floppy drives should be about the same speed, and would store about 602 GB. Not bad.

Now, how do I connect 438665 floppy drives to one computer?

It is the year 2025 CE. I have received a 5.25-inch floppy in the post (among other things).

Verrückt - teuerer als zur Markteinführung in den 1980ern!
#floppy #disk #diskette
https://shop.heise.de/floppy-disk-untersetzer-set

Has anyone built an automatic #floppy cleaning device before? #retroComputing #softwareArchiving

Just found an "autoprotec" 5.25" #floppy disc - with protections slides to make them writable or write-protect it.

Did you know that many USB #floppy drives can’t read 720 KB #floppies? Well, I know it now.

The most annoying part is that the read/write head could read those floppies just fine. It’s just the silly #firmware of the external drive that messes things up!