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   Bodo (bitboxer@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 22:19:53 JST Bodo

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Please enter Disk 2

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     thegnarlypanda (thegnarlypanda@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 22:45:06 JST thegnarlypanda

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs imagine the physical weight of those

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 22:52:04 JST Rich Felker

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs That's about how inconvenient downloading them is. Handling that many floppies might even be preferable. 🤦 Games are so dead to me because of this shit.

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     f♯ a♯ ∞ (tsadiq@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 01:18:27 JST f♯ a♯ ∞

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs and errr what's the best transfer rate achievable by these floppies ? 😂

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     Nina Kalinina (nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 07:31:16 JST Nina Kalinina

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs oh, and don't forget to waste maybe 30W per floppy

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     Nina Kalinina (nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 07:31:17 JST Nina Kalinina

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs limit the data transmission speed to 100 kbps and increase seek time to some 200 ms, and you'll get a close approximate, I guess?

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     gullevek ⚛️ (gullevek@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 08:07:55 JST gullevek ⚛️

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     • Graham Downs

     @GrahamDowns @thomasfuchs My disk one for privateer was corrupted and it took ages to get a new one. So long that I more quickly got a copy from a friend. Anyway. That dreaded sound of the drive. And then try VGAcopy and see if you could rescue it

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     Graham Downs (grahamdowns@c.im)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 08:07:56 JST Graham Downs

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I remember as a teenager, I got Wing Commander: Privateer. It came on 16 x 1.44MiB stiffy disks. Which, at the time, was the biggest game I'd ever seen. I couldn't believe a game could be that big. 😆

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 12:15:08 JST Chancerubbage

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     • John Siracusa

     @thomasfuchs @siracusa I really didn’t respect floppies much until they were 1.4K and I had two drives or a hard disk.

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     Steve Dinn (steve@social.dinn.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 22:22:56 JST Steve Dinn

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Man, you just have to punch the read/write notch in the other side, and then you have like 720k. My brother and I did this so many times we broke several regular paper hole punches. We ended up buying a specific device for making the square notches in 5 1/4 floppy disks.

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     Steve Dinn (steve@social.dinn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 01:50:25 JST Steve Dinn

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I think I'm remembering now...720k was the "non-HD" 3.5" disk capacity, wasn't it? It's like I have to bring these facts back from archived storage.

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     Bae Blade (baeblade@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:35:32 JST Bae Blade

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs by the time you get done installing flight sim, a new version will have come out