Never heard of it.
There are three patents: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Fisk+Communications+Inc
FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
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Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#22Re-imagine this with USB ports instead of a floppy drive and internet instead of dial up, and you've got quite a cute data transfer device for very non technical people.
Or you could just email stuff
yes, but:
- use LTE instead of line
- encrypt the hell out of it
- just create pairs only
-> just got the most secure 2 peer communication device.
Probably you can fit it on a usb stick with a slot for a SIM.
Actually not a bad idea for a startup. Who's in? :)
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#23In 2018, transferring large files over the internet is still not exactly straightforward. Few years ago Skype was excellent for P2P transfers of very large files, but since then they removed this feature, and today Skype's file transfer limits are ridiculously low. Using Dropbox or Google Drive for that requires a pre-paid amount of cloud storage space: you can't really stream anything directly with any well-known wi…
P2P... Torrent?
Not a trivial layman's tool (and even less trivial to make private transfers secure enough).
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#24In 2018, transferring large files over the internet is still not exactly straightforward. Few years ago Skype was excellent for P2P transfers of very large files, but since then they removed this feature, and today Skype's file transfer limits are ridiculously low. Using Dropbox or Google Drive for that requires a pre-paid amount of cloud storage space: you can't really stream anything directly with any well-known wi…
Once it's set up https://syncthing.net/ works transparently. Just drop files into a designated folder and they'll magically appear on the corresponding folder on the other machine.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I write a blog then sit on it for ages and never actually publish it because writing a blog is such a grand ordeal. If this format helps people ‘just get it done’ then I’m for it.
Now I'm thinking of a word processor that accepts tweets as input and stitches them together into a more seamless blog post style document.
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Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#26The "oh look, this disk drive is actually a whole PC" aspect reminds me of the "Mr. Backup Z64" copier for Nintendo 64. It had a 386-class embedded PC running a ROM-based DOS system to operate the internal Zip drive. Since the Zip drive sat on a standard ATA interface being driven by DOS, it could be replaced with a hard drive or CompactFlash slot. More loosely, it's also reminiscent of the Commodore disk drives that…
A fun bit of related trivia is that the 6502 in the Commodore 1541 disk drive is slightly faster than the 6510 in the PAL C64.
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#27In 2018, transferring large files over the internet is still not exactly straightforward. Few years ago Skype was excellent for P2P transfers of very large files, but since then they removed this feature, and today Skype's file transfer limits are ridiculously low. Using Dropbox or Google Drive for that requires a pre-paid amount of cloud storage space: you can't really stream anything directly with any well-known wi…
Once it's set up https://syncthing.net/ works transparently. Just drop files into a designated folder and they'll magically appear on the corresponding folder on the other machine.
I think OP means sending files to someone over the internet. Like, if I wanted to send you, a complete stranger, something over the internet, then the options we could use are very limited. There's pretty much nothing that works on p2p basis, I'd have to upload it to something like google drive or mega first.
Edit: Ok, I read a bit more about the thing that you sent and it looks like it does actually fulfil that particular need. Very interesting!
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#28Many years ago I was involved in a product called DiskFax which was similar. Used a fax modem which gave 9600bps even over crappy links like satellite. I believe there is one in the NSA museum as we did a version where the serial link between the modem and UART was broken out to the back so an encryption unit could be plugged in (I seem to recall it was used to send details of PoWs during the Bosnian conflicts) One o…
I used to hang out with a British guy who invested in the DiskFax product and was also the distributor for Singapore and the APAC region, in the early 90s. Was a flop, though he sold a few to media/ad agencies that needed a simple way to transfer Mac DTP files to their various offices. This was before the advent of email, and sending files via modem between computers was a chore.
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I write a blog then sit on it for ages and never actually publish it because writing a blog is such a grand ordeal. If this format helps people ‘just get it done’ then I’m for it.
Now I'm thinking of a word processor that accepts tweets as input and stitches them together into a more seamless blog post style document.
There are definitely services that just do a basic stitching so that it reads like a giant paragraph but it would be neat to see it truely translate from a tweet thread to a blog format beyond just a basic concatenation
Re: FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
#30Ah the "what should have been a blog post as a series of 50 tweets" format, not my favourite publishing mechanism.
Sorry. I've got ADHD, so that's really the only way I can usually do these things. I'm planning to videoify it in the future, if that's more your style.
Don't apologise. Stick with what works for you. Sharing the fun is the most important part, regardless of your choice of platform.