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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 23:07:00 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   These are actual screenshots of a disk copy utility for the #Amiga.
   
   Software used to be cool.
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     Cyberpunk Librarian (cyberpunklibrarian@hackers.town)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 23:18:09 JST Cyberpunk Librarian

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     @Polychrome Oh my goddess...

     That's beautiful. I wish developers still made software that looks like that. Everything these days looks like the layout was done in Excel.

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 23:33:58 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @miah @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian oh god I had that handheld scanner. I'm sure it's still somewhere in the closet.
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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@hackers.town)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 23:33:59 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     @CyberpunkLibrarian @Polychrome We need to revive these looks so damn hard.

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     Miah Johnson (miah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 23:33:59 JST Miah Johnson

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     @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian @Polychrome What about this look?

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     Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 00:12:54 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

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     • Drew Harwell
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     @Polychrome @drewharwell

     This app always brought joy — in the form of slightly illegally obtained “free software” (we understood that term differently).

     This reminded me I once made an X-Copy inspired frontend for dd on BeOS when learning C++. I think the X rotated while copying.

     (No idea if if works today on @haiku )
     https://www.lema.org/work/beos

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     Bostjan Laba (bostjanlaba@lajna.si)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 00:23:53 JST Bostjan Laba

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     @Polychrome not to mention Amiga and xcopy were able to make a copy of a floppy disc to three external drives in a single run.

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     mmby (mmby@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:04:34 JST mmby

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     @Polychrome for PC there was VGACopy
     https://archive.org/details/vgacp625

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:04:34 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @mmby hah, I somehow never had that one.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:11:01 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @Beckydog @renbymon arrrrr :blobcatpirate:
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     Becky (beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:11:11 JST Becky

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     @Polychrome @renbymon

     Sobs in pirate joy

     YARRR

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:36 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @CyberpunkLibrarian @LambdaCalculus @miah oh man it's a real shame that @SexyCyborg can't post online anymore. I'm really going to miss her.
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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:37 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     @miah @CyberpunkLibrarian @Polychrome Which means using a SmartyPi, or stuffing the Pi and a screen into a Pelican case!

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     Cyberpunk Librarian (cyberpunklibrarian@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:37 JST Cyberpunk Librarian

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     @LambdaCalculus @miah @Polychrome

     Here we go! This right here.

     https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/12/21/pi-palette-the-hackers-cosmetic-case-from-realsexycyborg-wearablewednesday/

     With love to @SexyCyborg

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     Miah Johnson (miah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:38 JST Miah Johnson

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     @CyberpunkLibrarian @LambdaCalculus @Polychrome As long as the form factor resembles a "cyberdeck" =)

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     Cyberpunk Librarian (cyberpunklibrarian@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:39 JST Cyberpunk Librarian

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     @LambdaCalculus @miah @Polychrome Then I suppose one could carry a battery operated Raspberry Pi or something like that.

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     Cyberpunk Librarian (cyberpunklibrarian@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:40 JST Cyberpunk Librarian

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     @miah @LambdaCalculus @Polychrome Now all you need is a smartphone and a laptop! 😄

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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:23:40 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     @CyberpunkLibrarian @miah @Polychrome But where's the fun in that? 😅 You don't get to look ostentatious enough with just two devices!

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:33:49 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @chelming this is an Amiga program, so it would be MOD rather than MIDI. :blobcatcool:
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWfW7o-i41Q
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     Chris Helming :enby: :they: (chelming@social.sndevs.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:33:50 JST Chris Helming :enby: :they:

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     @Polychrome Please tell me there was some midi music that played when it opened

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:34:43 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @LambdaCalculus @miah @CyberpunkLibrarian @SexyCyborg The Chinese government happened. As she put it, they "clipped her wings".
     
     https://poly.cybre.city/notice/AXW6gVUItSdJMAHeW8
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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:34:44 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     @Polychrome @miah @CyberpunkLibrarian @SexyCyborg Wait, what happened that she can't post online anymore?

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 02:01:21 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Honihan Snawl
     @hannah I always read it as CWC•HOT
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     Honihan Snawl (hannah@posts.rat.pictures)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 02:01:23 JST Honihan Snawl

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     @Polychrome the company logo looks like CIS•HET

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     Mel (graveolens@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 02:05:59 JST Mel

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     @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian @miah @Polychrome @Jetengineweasel I was having a conversation with a friend a few months ago about how much fun the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebooks are but they feel so quaint in their portrayal of individual “roles” and equipment considering that in the real 2020 the best tool for all of the different gigs is probably just a smartphone

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 02:05:59 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @graveolens @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian @miah @Jetengineweasel I dunno, a smartphone is a mostly locked down consumer device and it still can't do the same job as a Flipper Zero.
     
     https://flipperzero.one
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     Leona Rainside (leona@yiff.life)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 04:06:12 JST Leona Rainside

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     @Polychrome Oh man. We had... It might've been called TOS Copy? For DOS. It had a look similar to these, it would yell out the percentage completion, and if you left it alone for a while it would go to sleep.

     By which I mean, the screen would dim and it would snore.

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     Lonnon Foster (lonnon@social.nyerm.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 08:44:47 JST Lonnon Foster

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     @Polychrome @graveolens @CyberpunkLibrarian @Jetengineweasel @LambdaCalculus @miah Dang, now I want one of those. Brilliant little design.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 09:16:51 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • ĸurth
     @kurth from what I know it just had a fancy beep boop when it was done reading/writing.
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     ĸurth (kurth@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 09:16:52 JST ĸurth

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     @Polychrome iirc it had music, too

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 16:15:49 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @bgrinter @miah @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian I had the Logitech Scanman Color in that photo with Windows 3.x. It was available between 1992 to 1996 before Logitech replaced it with the Scanman Color 2000 so the photo is probably sometime from that era, maybe a bit after.
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     Brian Grinter (bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 16:15:50 JST Brian Grinter

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     @miah @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian @Polychrome when was this from, 90s?

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     The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus (lambdacalculus@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 20:37:25 JST The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

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     @bgrinter @Polychrome @miah @CyberpunkLibrarian I remember I carefully removed this page from my copy of Mondo 2000 and hung it on my bedroom wall!

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     Brian Grinter (bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 20:37:26 JST Brian Grinter

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     @Polychrome @miah @LambdaCalculus @CyberpunkLibrarian ah classic mid 90s “Hackers/Johnny Mnemonic” period 😊🤖