If you remember: I have a CBM 8050 dual floppy disk drive with Micropolis floppy mechanisms. However drive 0 has a malfunction and is not working quite right. So due to the magic of buying two, I now have ANOTHER 8050. #floppydisk#commodore#commodorePET#retrocomputing
And there we have it: replacement 6502 and 6522s from Rockwell for the gutted 1541 I repaired a couple of weeks ago. Now the drive is back into full working order!
The 6522 chips are relatively new and not MOS branded, but I think it's better than a non-working drive! #retrocomputing#commodore#c64#floppydisk
"It is well-known that some Boeing 747s, for example, use floppy disks to load critical software updates into their navigation and avionics computers.
In San Francisco, the Muni Metro light railway, which launched in 1980, won't start up each morning without a floppy disk that controls the railway's Automatic Train Control System."
If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn’t seem weird, you’re probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data.
However, it’s now been over a decade since the last floppy disc was made, and it wouldn’t even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture. So why do some people still love using them? BBC Future speaks to some of the floppy disk faithful to find out.
“For decades, the floppy has been a quiet mainstay in DIY-driven media, especially in lobit subculture, which celebrates low-bitrate music as a form of art and practicality. The added fact that floppies aren’t made for long-term storage also forces their users to confront the transience of art and information in the face of time and decay.”
It turns out that my new multimeter has a relatively decent frequency counter. Good enough to see that there is a clock on the CPU! Question is: how high can it count...? #commodore#c64#c1541#floppydisk
I sent one of my dead Commodore 1541 floppy drive heads to someone with access to a high resolution CT scanner. They did a lot of HARD work and came back with super high resolution scans of the head and a possible place where the coil has been damaged. I am SUPER impressed.
I was going through old boxes and these sent me! We had a 'swapping' crew back in 4th grade. I used a xerox to make our own disk sleeve and the design has me in stitches!! #c64#floppydisk#evil#tools#piracy
Speaking of great #floppydisk designs.. this is my favorite! The colors, the heavy black, the logo. Even the weird thing that is going on with the u and t there. Still classy! #INPUT64
Floppy disks are the "perfect reminders of how violently smashing bytes together on a thin, vulnerable plastic/magnet sandwich is still one of the most punk things you can do as a musician and artist.” @verge takes us inside the underground floppy disk music scene. https://flip.it/prIaig #Tech#Music#Technology#FloppyDisk#TheVerge