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I am writing a new frontend software greaseweazle.

I wish someone paid me for doing this because I am having an #adhd problem of not doing the actual paid work until one more thing is done.

[I am going to link to this project in the future, it's not in a state I want to share it with people that might actually want to use it in the current state yet]

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Huh. I didn't know they were planning on putting a Twiggy drive in the Mac.

Twiggy was an odd one. Apparently Apple engineers were worried that normal double-sided #floppy drive designs, in which both heads sat right across from each other, would wear out the heads. Nobody else (Sony, Shugart, etc) seemed to share this concern, and it ultimately proved to be unfounded (normal DS drives worked fine), so I have to wonder why #Apple engineers were worried about it.

#KRITIS Sektor #Transport und #Verkehr

FAA to eliminate #floppy disks used in #air traffic control systems - #Windows95 also being phased out

"According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they’re stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95."
tomshardware.com/pc-components

Tom's Hardware · FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased outVon Jowi Morales
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I also remember backing up onto #floppy disks back in the day, but this has always been rather impractical.

The #IBMPC #XT had a 10MB #HDD and 360kB FDD, so with a 2:1 compression ratio, you'd need 15 disks to back the machine up.

This didn't change much in the early '90s. You had a 1440kB FDD, but you also had a 40MB HDD, so you'd need 14 floppies to back it up.

The introduction of USB HDDs, especially compact bus-powered ones, has *greatly* improved the #backup situation.

Reminder: Bring any #floppy disk or drive you find to me at #GPN23 ! (don't worry, I'll delete private data if I find any on those).

I'm gonna be bringing two 3.5 inch drives and my greaseweazle. I plan to hack it a bit for fixing some of my software preservation needs.

I decided not to bring my 5 1/4 inch drives as I also need to bring a power supply and it breaks my space/weight constraints at the moment, but happy to take those too.