@textfiles
Need some good hashtags!
#Digitize #audio #tapes, #video #floppies #AudioTape #VideoTape #InternetArchive

@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 #floppies, #Fidonet, #UUCP and #NNCP just fine, by the way.

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

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #buongiornoatutti amo ancora cartucce e #pixel e #floppies aggiungo io....

If you liked this design, TeePublic has the discounted intro price for another five hours. So get 'em while they're... floppy? I guess? 💾💾💾💾
#FloppyDisks #VintageComputers #RetroComputing #floppies #merch

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/43329896-retro-disks

My latest shirt design is for all of you folks out there on Bitbang –Just a bunch of Retro Disks. Enjoy! 💾#RetroComputing #floppies #merch

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/43329896-retro-disks

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/11mt17h/diskette_case_came_with_this_cool_sticker_who/

#BeagleBros #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #floppydisk #floppies #stickers #nostalgia #vintage #homecomputing #vintageads

That's how 2x32MB looks like

#c64 #floppies

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 😅

#RetroComputing #floppies

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 @ https://youtu.be/gwftLHz9H7Y! 💾💿 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows1 #FloppyDisks #Floppies

For the #digipres #digitalForensics crowd - a few years ago I published a workflow description for imaging 3.5" #floppies, 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:

https://github.com/KBNLresearch/forensicImagingResources/blob/master/doc/floppy-35.md

This probably affects other manufacturers as well.

#dontCopyThatFloppy 💾

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 https://kazyexe.tumblr.com/post/701107658951884800/some-floppies-from-a-box-of-old-computer-stuff-i #retrocomputing #floppydisk #floppies

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 https://kazyexe.tumblr.com/post/701107658951884800/some-floppies-from-a-box-of-old-computer-stuff-i #retrocomputing #floppydisk #floppies

Thanks for the boosts! I should have added some #RetroComputing hashtags for people to enjoy the pic 😆 #PC #Floppies #ByteMagazine #WordPerfect

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.
"""

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

#Floppies #DaringFireball via https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/09/20/persky-floppy-disks

Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think · Hack a Day https://hackaday.com/2022/09/21/floppy-disk-sales-are-higher-density-than-you-might-think/
#floppies #history #business

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 #mediaarcheology #retro stuff #permacomputing #conservation #repairculture or the #demoscene (or just have a sweet spot for #floppies) this is a really valuable resource.

https://underbelly.nu/product/floppy-disk-fever-niek-hilkmann-thomas-walskaar/

Attached a few photos from the evening taken by @fcr with his... Floppy based Sony Mavica FD95 http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica_FD95

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? 💾🧲

https://www.onomatopee.net/product/floppy-disk-fever/

Full program listing of the two days event:

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

maybe #retro maybe #contemporary maybe #permacomputing maybe #postdigital but mostly #floppies

Installing #Windows 3.1 on an #iPhone From #Floppy Disks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R3LA4awCCM&ab_channel=MichaelMJD

#Microsoft #MicrosoftWindows #Windows31 #Floppies #FloppyDisks #WTF #WTAF

@Bhpy I still have a box labeled "old software" on a shelf in the garage full of things like Encarta and #Windows95 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 #floppies (actual floppies).

Later I purchased an #Amiga 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 #C compiler off another floppy.

Those were the days !

Attention attention !

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

1&2 : #Doom, Episode One, v1.2. Guaranteed without #DRM

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.)

#giveaway #retro #floppies #boost :boost_ok: