Rich Stein (he/him) · @RichStein
429 followers · 4127 posts · Server econtwitter.net
LisPi · @lispi314
614 followers · 12897 posts · Server mastodon.top

@pooserville Not really, the comparison to email was only ever a comparison.

Email never actually had this issue in a way that mattered until the idiotic tendency for assuming constant low-latency TCP-friendly connections fully set-in.

You can still send email over , , and just fine, by the way.

And you completely ignored my second post, which suggested several ways by which the design could've avoided reimplementing but for social media.

#floppies #fidonet #uucp #NNCP #smtp

Last updated 1 year ago

Nikoh :verified: · @Nikoh
20 followers · 669 posts · Server social.themazzarella.net
Geekman · @Geekman
28 followers · 130 posts · Server bitbang.social

If you liked this design, TeePublic has the discounted intro price for another five hours. So get 'em while they're... floppy? I guess? πŸ’ΎπŸ’ΎπŸ’ΎπŸ’Ύ

teepublic.com/t-shirt/43329896

#merch #floppies #retrocomputing #VintageComputers #floppydisks

Last updated 2 years ago

Geekman · @Geekman
28 followers · 126 posts · Server bitbang.social

My latest shirt design is for all of you folks out there on Bitbang –Just a bunch of Retro Disks. Enjoy! πŸ’Ύ

teepublic.com/t-shirt/43329896

#merch #floppies #retrocomputing

Last updated 2 years ago

Blake Patterson · @blakespot
716 followers · 720 posts · Server oldbytes.space

In a reddit thread discussing an old Beagle Bros sticker attached to the default computery sticker location for every schoolchild -- the front of a floppy disk storage box -- a former tech support employee of the company chimed in in the comments and shared a nice little glimpse of the company from the inside.

Thanks, r/LlaughingLlama

reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comm

#beaglebros #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #floppydisk #floppies #stickers #nostalgia #vintage #HomeComputing #vintageads

Last updated 2 years ago

ytm · @ytm
8 followers · 53 posts · Server social.linux.pizza

That's how 2x32MB looks like

#c64 #floppies

Last updated 2 years ago

Karl Baron · @kalleboo
185 followers · 572 posts · Server bitbang.social

Box of floppies arrived (my only other box of floppies came Macintosh-formatted and I didn't want to desecrate any more of them with FAT)!

This box art is so gorgeous that I really didn't want to open it. Tried to Steve1989 it so I could rewrap it afterwards πŸ˜…

#floppies #retrocomputing

Last updated 2 years ago

Windows On Windows · @windowsonwindows
509 followers · 130 posts · Server mas.to

Windows originally shipped on 5.25” floppy disks. Windows 1 came on 5 disks, with users having to remove & insert each disk, one by one, to complete setup. Later, higher capacity 3.5” floppies would be used, followed eventually by CDs & DVDs. More @ youtu.be/gwftLHz9H7Y! πŸ’ΎπŸ’Ώ

#floppies #floppydisks #windows1 #windows #Microsoft #dailywindowsfact

Last updated 2 years ago

Johan van der Knijff · @bitsgalore
271 followers · 254 posts · Server digipres.club

For the crowd - a few years ago I published a workflow description for imaging 3.5" , which included a Tableau USB write blocker.

Turns out this device does in fact not work well with USB floppy drives (I have a confirmation on this from the manufacturer). This can result in faulty or incomplete captures. More details in the updated workflow description:

github.com/KBNLresearch/forens

This probably affects other manufacturers as well.

πŸ’Ύ

#dontcopythatfloppy #floppies #DigitalForensics #digipres

Last updated 2 years ago

Some old floppy disks I found in an old computer stuff box I grabbed last time I went down to visit family. More over at kazyexe.tumblr.com/post/701107

#floppies #floppydisk #retrocomputing

Last updated 2 years ago

Some old floppy disks I found in an old computer stuff box I grabbed last time I went down to visit family. More over at kazyexe.tumblr.com/post/701107

#floppies #floppydisk #retrocomputing

Last updated 2 years ago

Iain Shepherd · @iain
77 followers · 32 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Thanks for the boosts! I should have added some hashtags for people to enjoy the pic πŸ˜†

#retrocomputing #pc #floppies #ByteMagazine #wordperfect

Last updated 2 years ago

Timo Tijhof · @krinkle
571 followers · 399 posts · Server fosstodon.org

The Last Person Standing Is Me

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com, in an interview:

"""
Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster.

If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me.
"""

eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-

via daringfireball.net/linked/2022

#floppies #daringfireball

Last updated 2 years ago

zonsopkomst βœ… · @zonsopkomst
16 followers · 439 posts · Server mastodon.social

Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think Β· Hack a Day hackaday.com/2022/09/21/floppy

#floppies #history #business

Last updated 2 years ago

ultrageranium · @320x200
1082 followers · 2438 posts · Server post.lurk.org

Was a great evening! I had the pleasure to ask questions to @walskaar @lidia_p @fcr and Niek. We talked about the purpose and process behind the publication, the post-digital ambivalence of engaging with so-called retro and low-tech media/tech/practices that are in fact inextricable from contemporary tech/networks, the question of resistance and escapism in such practices, the creative potential of technological constraints and only working with what you have access to, and we started to sketch a discussion around nostalgia and its problematic ties with notions of traditions, imagined communities, nationalism, etc. It was way too short but really demonstrated the value of all the interviews that @floppytotaal arranged in this book.

If you're into stuff or the (or just have a sweet spot for ) this is a really valuable resource.

underbelly.nu/product/floppy-d

Attached a few photos from the evening taken by @fcr with his... Floppy based Sony Mavica FD95 camera-wiki.org/wiki/Sony_Mavi

#floppies #demoscene #repairculture #conservation #permacomputing #retro #MediaArcheology

Last updated 2 years ago

ultrageranium · @320x200
1082 followers · 2438 posts · Server post.lurk.org

This saturday I'm at v2_ in Rotterdam with the @floppytotaal team to erase/format/checkdisk/write/eject (with moderation) a discussion around the launch of their publication "Floppy Disk Fever".

Do you have a copy yet? πŸ’ΎπŸ§²

onomatopee.net/product/floppy-

Full program listing of the two days event:

floppytotaal.org/events.html (click on Floppy Disk Fever - 16 & 17.09.22)

maybe maybe maybe maybe but mostly

#floppies #postdigital #permacomputing #contemporary #retro

Last updated 2 years ago

Jim Donegan βœ… · @jimdonegan
956 followers · 1921 posts · Server mastodon.scot
George Jones :emacs: :orgmode: · @eludom
185 followers · 1346 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@Bhpy I still have a box labeled "old software" on a shelf in the garage full of things like Encarta and install disks.

Back in the day I purchased a copy of the "Mark Williams C Compiler" for the PC, it came on 2 8 inch (actual floppies).

Later I purchased an when they came out. You booted the firmware/OS off one 3.5 inch hard "floppy", it was loaded into ram (512k on that machine !!!), then you could run the compiler off another floppy.

Those were the days !

#windows95 #c #floppies #amiga

Last updated 5 years ago

kropot :acab: · @kropot
510 followers · 3745 posts · Server anticapitalist.party

Attention attention !

I'm giving away three floppy drives, you just need to pay the shipping.

1&2 : , Episode One, v1.2. Guaranteed without

3 : Breakout, the original.

( Provided as is, with no guarantee that they will work, boot or anything... I got them on a flee market, but never found a floppy reader.)

:boost_ok:

#boost #floppies #retro #giveaway #drm #doom

Last updated 5 years ago