Also the second floppy drive arrived today. So this weekend I get to play Will It Read.

#retrocomputing #floppydrives

Oops! I appear to have come home with the operators console, and an enormous quantity of spare PCBs and cables for my #isdx #TelephoneExchange

More importantly, there are also two spare 2.88Mb ED #FloppyDrives in there, it’s taken nearly a year to track some down!

(1) #DigitaleErfenis

37 jaar geleden kocht ik mijn 1e #pc met 2 #floppydrives. Voor het 'opslaan' van al je #programmatuur en je #data was er een 'Floppy Disk Storage Box' te koop en nog steeds overigens (zie foto. Sic 🙄 ).
Die doosjes stonden naast mijn #pc en aangezien er nog geen #internet was voor #thuis, was verdere #adminstratie niet nodig.

Rond 1996 kreeg ik #isdn van mijn werkgever in de #ict en kon #internetten. Het #managen van je #wachtwoorden werd ook onderdeel van ...(2)

I felt like doing some #retro stuff so I got a couple #floppydrives off eBay as parts only and decided to see if I could get them to work. This is Part 1 so.. not yet, but I'm still confident, despite my noobishness.

https://youtu.be/dWJGsetvips

Le démarrage du Tavernier 6809 sur le lecteur 5.25 double-hauteur :-)
#retrocomputing #mc6809 #floppydrives

Family is reunited again, one of them has been traveling around the world for two years… I’m envious!
Also new cousin joins the group!
#Apple #AppleII #RetroComputing #floppyDrives #retrogaming

#StarWars Theme on #FLOPPOTRON 3.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KS02q0BUnY&ab_channel=Pawe%C5%82Zadro%C5%BCniak

#Floppotron3 #Music #Floppy #FloppyDrive #FloppyDrives #RetroComputing

Heh. A post on why the MS-DOS floppy disk read cache was set at two seconds:

"Mark Zbikowski led the MS-DOS 2.0 project, and he sat down with a stopwatch while Aaron Reynolds and Chris Peters tried to swap floppy disks on an IBM PC as fast as they could.

They couldn’t do it under two seconds.

So the MS-DOS cache validity was set to two seconds."

#Hardware #Computers #FloppyDrives #Technology

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

The apparent end of an era. Linus Torvalds has marked the linux floppy disk driver as orphaned as the maintainer (Jiri) no longer has working hardware.

#FloppyDrives #Linux #DeviceDrivers #OrphanedCode

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4