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"Add to cart" does nothing. Wonder if they actually sell floppies, or just shred them to keep pushing us towards modern technology.
Relatedly, I was recently digging through the attic at my family’s home and came across a 3.5" disk containing a bunch of QBASIC programs I’d written in the early ’90s. Despite sitting for decades in a non–climate-controlled attic, it loaded up just fine when I plugged it into a USB floppy drive. Honestly, looking back at code from 30+ years ago felt more like an archaeology expedition. Also how many other kids also…
I was pissed when I discovered that the cassette tape containing all of my c64 programs was gone. Most of them were crappy, but there was a D&D character generator I wrote when I was 8 that I'd made extensive use of for quickly generating randos for us to play one-offs with. The oldest publicly released code of mine is SLIPShuttle, which provided pushbutton connecting to the internet on an Amiga (the cmdline interfac…
Now I've got a pack of old floppies that are outgassing :0 I have no other explanation. This is an almost-full box of miscellaneous floppies in one of the original cardboard trays of 30 from Office Depot. I've got kilos more floppies in different closets but these are good ones I selected a few years ago that all passed SCANDISK. Now this one little box is in an old ziploc bag in the office and it keeps self-inflatin…
My son told be today that he wants to buy a floppy disk drive because one of the bands he likes started releasing singles on 3.5" floppies. What a time to be alive.
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I was pissed when I discovered that the cassette tape containing all of my c64 programs was gone. Most of them were crappy, but there was a D&D character generator I wrote when I was 8 that I'd made extensive use of for quickly generating randos for us to play one-offs with. The oldest publicly released code of mine is SLIPShuttle, which provided pushbutton connecting to the internet on an Amiga (the cmdline interfac…
Out of curiosity, what's the use case for ringconnectd? Just to find out what your IP is? What would you need that for back in the day?
"Add to cart" does nothing. Wonder if they actually sell floppies, or just shred them to keep pushing us towards modern technology.
If losing floppies pushes you towards modern technology, I don’t think you have to worry. You are still 4+ generations behind. If you think those Zip disks are great, just wait until you hear about DVD-RW!
My son told be today that he wants to buy a floppy disk drive because one of the bands he likes started releasing singles on 3.5" floppies. What a time to be alive.
What band is that? Also how do they do that? Just heavily compressed mp3?
I'd guess they use .mod files - instruments and tracks, rather than digitized audio.
Interestingly most buyers didn't care about HD, DD etc. I suspect they went into art projects.