txgx42

foone, 11 hours ago to random

I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?

txgx42, 1 day ago to random

Got some new floppy storage boxes... this ought to be enough for a year or two

txgx42, 14 days ago to random

Pass the word, not the disk.

txgx42, 23 days ago to random

The original 1987 ShareData release of Jeopardy for the Apple II had this clue, in the category Fictional Captains: "He sat at the helm of the Starship Enterprise", with the correct answer being "Captain Kirk"

When the game was re-released under the GameTek brand in 1990, it had been been updated to accept either Kirk or Picard.

txgx42, 26 days ago to random

Found an unused question set on the question disk for the Apple II version of Jeopardy. The disk has 30 playable question sets but there is data present for one more which is not normally accessible. Judging from the disk layout this set was replaced at the last minute for some reason.

txgx42, 28 days ago to random

I only image the best and most popular Apple II software like checks notes "Calvert's Mustard Cookbook"

vga256, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to retrocomputing

today’s retro rescue: a wang word processing workstation and its WPS-5 disk drive unit!

go ahead, make jokes - we’ve heard em all! 😅

surprisingly the drive unit weighs 5x as much as the entire computer. at least 75 lbs

#retrocomputing #archival

txgx42, 1 month ago to random

Mail's here... I bought a big pile of (mostly) edu-ware

txgx42, 1 month ago to random

Tried taking a time-lapse of the eclipse from here in New Jersey... the clouds didn't quite cooperate but some of the individual pictures aren't too terrible. (approximately 15 minutes between exposures in this image)

txgx42, 1 month ago to random

Mail's here

foone, 3 months ago to random

hah.
I used a tool to download a patreon of a podcast so I could stick them all on my phone, and it automatically downloaded all external links and saved them as files.
but every patreon post includes a link to their website, which is at www.foobar.com

so the download folder now contains a lot of "DOS executables", because windows thinks foobar.com is a program

txgx42, 3 months ago to random

Mail's here

txgx42, 4 months ago to random

pwned by a magnet

txgx42, 4 months ago to random

Ah yes, the the venerable 5.25" flopping disk.

txgx42, 4 months ago to random

This disk seems to have a few bad sectors.

txgx42, 4 months ago to random

This keyboard haunts me... It's got a "caps lock" key so of course it also needs a "caps unlock" key.

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txgx42, 4 months ago to random

This seems bad

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