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Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

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

I once worked as "the computer guy" in a hospital for a summer. Among many absurd things going on there, I was told that when updating the software on an already old computer they had, I should never remove the old #floppy before inserting the new one.

Yes. That meant inserting the new floppy in the drive while the old one was still in there, and closing the drive hatch with both inside. These were 8" floppies, which I've never actually used before or since.

Then I was supposed to run some commands on what I can now only assume was some CP/M variant, before opening the drive hatch and carefully removing the old floppy. Then I was to shred the old floppy.

Why did this even work? A combination of significant physical margins inside the drive, a motor so powerful it could have ripped the floppies apart, and the nature of single-sided floppies.

Of course I did not actually execute this as I was told, even as a 13 year old this seemed extremely odd and wrong. Guess what: it worked just fine when I did it like a normal person: open drive, remove old floppy, insert new floppy, close drive.

I just really want to know how the others who did this had been told and how those instructions could possibly have been misunderstood. And where the original error originated.

    Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

    [?]Dillo browser »
    @dillo@fosstodon.org

    release size over time, constrained by the size of a single disk. We still have some room left.

    I suspect the big increase in 3.1.0 is mostly caused by adding a screenshot in the readme (136 KiB).

    A bar plot of Dillo release sizes over time. They start at 0.2 MiB and grow until 1.0 MiB for the last release, still under a floppy capacity of 1.44 MB.

    Alt...A bar plot of Dillo release sizes over time. They start at 0.2 MiB and grow until 1.0 MiB for the last release, still under a floppy capacity of 1.44 MB.

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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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