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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:26:56 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   This Canon 360K 5 1/4" floppy disk drive has an interesting locking/eject mechanism.

   After putting the disk in you press down the button and it mechanically locks. Press button again, and it unlocks and slightly ejects the disk so you can take it out.

   #retrocomputing

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:37:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Rob Carlson

     @vees in, just like with a 3 1/2 drive, only you have to manually press it after inserting disk to secure it

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     Rob Carlson (vees@epistolary.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:37:11 JST Rob Carlson

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     @thomasfuchs Press down or press in?

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:52:48 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Count Zero Interrupted

     @count_01 it’s only diskette if it’s from the Flôppy region of France, otherwise it’s just bendy spinning rust

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     Count Zero Interrupted (count_01@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:52:49 JST Count Zero Interrupted

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     @thomasfuchs Diskette, please. In 1985 they were called diskettes, to make them sound cooler and more European than plain old boring floppy disks.