I uploaded a German curiosity!
(update: fixed the .img file, if you downloaded this in the past hour, please re-download)
"Elektronische Kurzfassung Der Broschüre: Forschung für den Denkmalschutz (Jahreskalender 1995)"

I uploaded a German curiosity!
(update: fixed the .img file, if you downloaded this in the past hour, please re-download)
"Elektronische Kurzfassung Der Broschüre: Forschung für den Denkmalschutz (Jahreskalender 1995)"
did someone hang this #floppy disk to a fridge? #softwareArchiving
I am this old...
at some point I hope I come across a full set of windows 95 installation #floppy disks
@phintagecollect I checked my #floppy collection, unfortunately I don't have that disk. I'll keep my eyes open
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]
Trans Send me #floppy disks!
formatting a
#Mega65 / #DiskDrive / #floppy / #HD / #data
You can use #Floppy #disks to store #private #keys offline. They can hold at least 300 #PrivateKeys. #Archaic #Technology #ModernTimes #informationsecurity #InformationAssurance @computers8networks tr.ee/wim7nV
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.
speaking of floppies, anyone got disk 1 and 3?
Disk 2 now uploaded to the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/deutsche_bahn_elektronische_stadteverbindungen_dutschland_1992_93
I need to get more 5 1/4 inch #floppy #drives for HD media.
I have a drive that reads super well but has very poor access to the heads for cleaning and I have a drive with wonky spindle magnet. Latter I can get data off for non-flux image archives but it also doesn't like certain floppy brands index punches.
#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."
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-faa-seeks-to-eliminate-floppy-disk-usage-in-air-traffic-control-systems
@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal @OS1337 I mean, I wish I was wrong, but #ISA can't be well-tunneled like #PCI can be tunneled in #PCIe.
Otherwise @rasteri and others wouldn't go out if their way to deal with #ISA & #PC104...
At least #TexElec started to build new #Floppy Controllers with the #QuadFlop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjNBPHjUSHE via @TechTangents
https://texelec.com/product/quad-flop-four-port-isa-floppy-controller/
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114739012019769556
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.
also: I am bringing some empty 3.5 inch floppies (most HD, some DD) #floppies to #GPN23 for your #retroComputing needs
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.