Notices by Ed W8EMV (w8emv@hachyderm.io)

@hazelweakly

every working big system is always partly broken, in ways that ensure that systems people and operations people will always have something to do.

@hazelweakly “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” Ellen Ullman

@eaton so, billions of dollars to reinvent Mad Libs? Good times.

@thomasfuchs

if you follow @craigmaloney you will see the art of Mastodon disclaimers honed to a fine edge.

@thomasfuchs advertising for Christmas appears around here to have started the day after Halloween.

I think of it as a War on Thanksgiving.

@mattly how do you even pronounce that when you are reading it?!

@thomasfuchs

AOL is the biggest opportunity yet to introduce more "normal" people to Usenet.

@thomasfuchs

"The Net of a Million Lies" was a warning, not a business plan

@thomasfuchs

This 1990 FAQ from Epson says the drive worked in an Epson Equity series computer, with a "non-standard FDD interface".

https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/psb/psb.s-0060a.pdf

You might hunt for "Epson Equity" docs. The few I have read suggest that Epson sourced some parts that were nearly but not quite compatible with standard interfaces of the time, so there may be some goofball surprises waiting.