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Hello fellow #floppy fans! Through some fiddling and optimisation I've freed up about 180KB of space on http://floppy.museum and need something to fill it with.

Since my brain is pretty much empty at the moment, I would be very grateful for any ideas the Fediverse could offer. Some ground rules:

  • It needs to fit in the space given (duh!)
  • It needs to be relevant to floppies and/or #retrocomputing
  • It can be software (yet another service), in which case it must run under #MSDOS on a 286, and should have moderate memory requirements (some EMS and XMS is OK, but at most 380KB conventional..)
  • It can be art (but don't expect me to create any, so the license must permit this usage)
  • Should not require modern browsers of hardware to access/enjoy

Ideas floated so far:

  • Gopher server (problem: how to convert html to gopher pages; yes I've tried, no it's not easy)
  • Rmenu (a telnet server allowing running of commands on the machine)
  • Samantha Fox GIFs

Spread the word and give me ideas! The sillier the better!

#Retrocomputing #286 #PerformanceArt

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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 😉

#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars
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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argv minus one

I wonder if a sufficiently large #RAID 0 array of #floppy drives could match the throughput of an #SSD, and if so, how many drives it would take.

Let's see…

The Crucial T705 does sequential IO at 13387 MB/s, or 109666304 kbps. A floppy drive can do sequential IO at 250 kbps.

So, an array of 438665 floppy drives should be about the same speed, and would store about 602 GB. Not bad.

Now, how do I connect 438665 floppy drives to one computer? 🤔

#retrocomputing#shitpost
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I was given this unusual old computer by a client recently, found it was an old controller for a car park! The custom motherboard boasts a Core 2 duo T2500 CPU from a laptop. The original drive has Windows XP embedded on there and some proprietory software for controlling the car park hardware. The unit seems to have been manufactured in 2009.
I'm going to clean it up, pop a newer HDD in there and use it as a classic XP machine for now.
#WindowsXP #Skidata #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Floppy

A computer screen showing a proprietary program for controlling different parks of a car park system. Status and images of the payment machine, entry and exit barriers and the main controller are shown in a classic Windows XP style.
The Skidata machine with the top panel removed. Inside, a very unusual shaped motherboard is visible. Interestingly, there's a SATA HDD, but the DVD drive is connected via IDE /PATA. An unusual riser board is visible on the right.
A very dirty computer. The name badge simply says "Skidata". The front panel only has a few features, including a 3.5" floppy drive, a DVD drive, power and HDD lights and a very dirty dust filter. This picture was taken before any cleaning was done.
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Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:

My horribly old #desktop #PC is finally starting to die. Currently running a backup (using #zfs send/recv) to my server of one important local dataset.

Now I started looking for new hardware and to my surprise found a "modern" mainboard with a "real" parallel port (internal header, certainly good enough). This really helps with my retro hobby (#C64), years ago I soldered a simple interface cable that allows using a 1541 floppy on the PC, I even ported the #opencbm driver for that from #Linux to #FreeBSD. Without a parallel port, you'd need some complex USB interface instead including a microcontroller and "tons of shit", while the cable for the parallel port basically consists of a few diodes.

Now I wonder one thing: I'd also love to have a #FDC (#floppy drive controller) again. Is there any modern board coming with THAT as well or should I just forget about it?

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