FloppyArchaeology

Vintage Computer Collector and Tinkerer. Floppy drive aficionado.

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@RachieRach429 Beauty only exists in the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. Wabi-Sabi.

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Using the 5.25" floppy duplicator.

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386 build i made with 12 working 5.25 " floppy drives.

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I found this prototype android tablet a few days ago. What do you think?

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I took one of my 8 inch floppy drives for a spin in MS-DOS. #floppy #floppydrive #msdos

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@pc74ls04 My guess is that this was a standard 18 sector disk, but something like a magnetic tape strip was laid on one side. I'm pretty sure the no-flux dark sides correspond physically to each other.

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New TV.

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https://t.co/TG6Sc4V3nR

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I love finding still shrink-wrapped software from the 80s.

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Starting the holiday break with a few games on the impress.

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I've uploaded 200 manuals to the internet archive.

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@_h0x0d_ The main reason I bough this was to scan those separators in that CD-ROM booklet you sent me. I didn't have a scanner that could scan A3 documents. https://t.co/LVoXpuD2HM

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I bought a new scanner to scan manuals.

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Joy

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@RetroTechChris I own two of these great systems. My only complaint is that my OCD brain can't accept that the CD-ROM drives can't be mounted flush to the front of the case. It drives me crazy. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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I love the white ISA expansion slots.

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Leading Edge promotional video digitized from VHS.

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The RAW video dump has been uploaded to the internet archive. https://t.co/JLMqn1KEig

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Here is that video I found on early Commodore computers.

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I found an old instructional video on VHS on how to use the Commodore PET/CBM. I'm digitizing now for posterity.