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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
Check out the floppy museum for hints on how to get in touch. Or, you know, ping me on the fediverse. :)
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[?]prokyonid » 🌐
@prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org

Ah yes, the very well-known manufacturer, CH. Their products began appearing everywhere starting in the late 80s. Curiously, they only ever produced high density 3.5" floppy diskettes.

Screenshot of an ebay listing for high density floppy diskettes. The seller has misread the 'HD' on the diskettes by reading it upside-down, making it appear as 'CH' and misterpreted it as a brand's logo rather than as an indicator of the type of diskette

Alt...Screenshot of an ebay listing for high density floppy diskettes. The seller has misread the 'HD' on the diskettes by reading it upside-down, making it appear as 'CH' and misterpreted it as a brand's logo rather than as an indicator of the type of diskette

    [?]prokyonid » 🌐
    @prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org

    Speaking of well-known floppy disk brands, everyone knows Sony developed the 3.5" diskette, but do you know who developed the standard 2MB high density diskette in particular?

    Here's a hint - they're still around, were never a huge tech company, and you can buy their products at nearly any convenience store or pharmacy.

      [?]ltning » 🌐
      @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

      @ltning Okay tags on #Peertube don't do what I think they do, so .. #Floppy #Museum #Retrocomputing #DOS

        [?]ltning » 🌐
        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

        CW: Damaged, screaming floppy [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

        So the #Floppy #Museum ate a #Floppy ..

        Additionally, the (first) replacement drive sounded worse than the dead floppy looked..

        But now a new drive is installed, a new floppy disk assembled, and all is again well in museum land.

        90mm (3.5") floppy disk held open, showing two stripes on the medium where the magnetic layer has been completely scratched off by the floppy drive heads. The scratched parts are transparent.

        Alt...90mm (3.5") floppy disk held open, showing two stripes on the medium where the magnetic layer has been completely scratched off by the floppy drive heads. The scratched parts are transparent.

        Alt...Short video of a floppy drive struggling to read a disk, making nasty sounds in the process.

          Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

          [?]ltning » 🌐
          @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

          News from the #Floppy #Museum!

          A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!

          Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.

          And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.

          Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D

          [1] https://dcclost.com/

          #RetroComputing #Why #Patience

          Photo of local screen on the Floppy Museum server. Foreground, top left 1/4 of screen: memory status, showing common, conventional and expanded memory available to DesqVIEW. Background, partially obscured by the memory status: my welcome-message on the message board.

          Alt...Photo of local screen on the Floppy Museum server. Foreground, top left 1/4 of screen: memory status, showing common, conventional and expanded memory available to DesqVIEW. Background, partially obscured by the memory status: my welcome-message on the message board.

          Another photo, the memory status window has been moved to reveal the first part of the message. The message wishes the user welcome, unless they're a bot or otherwise not human. It lists the two message boards - one read-only and one read-write for guests - and suggests leaving a (civil) note on the board.

          Alt...Another photo, the memory status window has been moved to reveal the first part of the message. The message wishes the user welcome, unless they're a bot or otherwise not human. It lists the two message boards - one read-only and one read-write for guests - and suggests leaving a (civil) note on the board.

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            [?]Ltning » 🌐
            @ltning@weirdr.net

            Trying to optimise http://floppy.museum for (even) older browsers. Some of the issues I'm trying to solve include utf8-to-latin1 translation (the original HTML has some silly double- and triple-byte characters), and variations of JPEG that simply aren't understood.

            Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing 😉


            OS/2 Warp Connect with four browser windows, a text mode editor editing config.sys, the parent "work area" folder and the launch pad.

            Alt...OS/2 Warp Connect with four browser windows, a text mode editor editing config.sys, the parent "work area" folder and the launch pad.

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