#floppydisks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #floppydisks, aggregated by home.social.
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🎉 WOW, someone finally decided to bring the wonders of 1985 to your IBM XT! 🎉 Get ready for blazing fast #CP/M 2.2 with a Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a—perfect for those longing for the cutting-edge tech of last century. 🚀🎩 Just don't forget to dust off your floppy disks, luddite! 😂💾
https://os8088.com/spotlight/ #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #nostalgia #IBMXT #floppydisks #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉🎂 Wow, the IBM PC is 45! Time to dust off your floppy disks and celebrate with a futile attempt to navigate a labyrinthine website that makes #DOS look user-friendly. 🔍🔄🎈
https://sharktastica.co.uk/articles/pc-fxt-45 #IBMPC45 #FloppyDisks #Nostalgia #Celebration #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the cutting-edge tech of yesteryear is back with a vengeance—floppy disks are apparently still a thing, and #recycling them is the new eco-warrior badge of honor. 🌍✨ Who knew that saving the planet involved hoarding what should have been buried in the tech graveyard of the 90s? 🦖📀 If only my grandma’s attic was as environmentally conscious! 🌱💾
https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle #floppydisks #ecofriendly #technostalgia #environmentalconsciousness #retrotech #HackerNews #ngated -
Commodore 1541 Repair: Spin Me Round
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💾 Copy That Floppy!
A guide to imaging #FloppyDisks for long-term preservation developed as part of the Future Nostalgia project, led by Cambridge University Library and supported by the Digital Preservation Coalition.
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TechSpot: A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. “Korean website 2P Game Arcade recently launched a new ‘1.44MB Game Dev Contest.’ The challenge is simple: developers must create an entire game that fits on a single floppy disk. The maximum file size is 1,474,560 bytes, matching the capacity of the 3.5-inch high-density floppy disks commonly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/techspot-a-new-coding-contest-challenges-developers-to-fit-an-entire-game-onto-a-1-44mb-floppy-disk/ -
🚀 Dive into the thrilling world of ancient floppy disks and dot-matrix #nostalgia, as thousands of #Amiga #games await you—because who wouldn't want to relive the cutting-edge graphics of 1987? 💾🎮 It's like a time machine, but instead of the future, you're stuck in the pixelated past! 🕹️🤣
https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/ #floppydisks #dotmatrix #retro #gaming #pixelart #HackerNews #ngated -
Hackaday: It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy. “Copy That Floppy! only briefly touches on the most ideal situation — that is, buying a USB floppy drive and making copies of the bog standard 3.5 inch disks you might come across. It then moves right on into more advanced topics, such as interfacing with less common drive types, how to safely clean floppies, and the use of advanced […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/hackaday-its-now-imperative-that-you-copy-that-floppy/ -
Ah yes, the Future Nostalgia Project, where we preserve obsolete tech because who doesn't want to rescue floppy disks in 2025? 😂 Apparently, we need a Cambridge degree to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V that 1.44 MB treasure trove of... ancient Word Art and Sound Blaster drivers. 📼✨
https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/ #FutureNostalgia #ObsoleteTech #FloppyDisks #TechPreservation #WordArt #SoundBlaster #HackerNews #ngated -
The "Sneakerweb" is here to whisk us back to the revolutionary 🕰️ days of floppy disks and dial-up modems. Forget DNS servers and embrace the cutting-edge technology of sneaker networks—because who needs the internet when you have USB drives and sneakers? 🚶♂️💾 Get ready to trip over cables as we march boldly into the past!
https://sneakerweb.org/ #Sneakerweb #FloppyDisks #RetroTech #SneakerNetworks #DialUpModems #HackerNews #ngated -
👴 Ah, 1997, when hacker #nostalgia was as fresh as TRASH 📰 and your biggest enemy was a virus that wasn't self-inflicted from too much Mountain Dew. #Zachtronics wants you to believe you're the Neo of floppy disk land, but really you're just paying to relive old-school hacking fantasies from your mom's basement. 💾💻
https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/ #hackernews #retrohacking #floppydisks #1990s #gaming #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Ah, the good ol' days when you needed a PhD in floppy disks just to play Minesweeper! 😂 Witness the nostalgic ramblings of an aging techie who can't let go of his glory days as a 10-year-old IT prodigy. Spoiler: we get it, you opened autoexec.bat ONCE! 🦖 #BoomerTechWisdom
https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/ #BoomerTech #Nostalgia #GamingTech #ITProdigy #FloppyDisks #RetroGaming #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Behold, the pinnacle of retro coding nostalgia: an open-source Oberon IDE that screams "I'm stuck in 1985!" 😆 GitHub's latest museum exhibit promises to teleport you back to the days when your biggest worry was running out of floppy disks. 📼✨
https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon #retroCoding #openSource #OberonIDE #GitHub #nostalgia #floppyDisks #HackerNews #ngated -
On this day in 1972, the patent for the floppy disk was granted. So happy floppy disk day, again, kind of 🥳😎
#floppydisk #floppydisks #diskette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory
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One has 40GB capacity, the other 0,00144GB capacity. Both attach to my iMac. Guess which is my favorite?
#floppydisks #bluray -
Do you want to see how a vintage Commodore 4040 disk drive gets refurbished? I got you covered:
https://youtu.be/CPUYzPUANHU
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Agreed with @ryanrandall (h/t), that's a great sweater!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
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Relive the #PC #magazine cover disk era with 758-strong #InternetArchive.org #CDROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes #FloppyDisks from as early as 1993
A search uncovered over 1,500 #PCGamer software archives, thanks to a trove of floppy disk offerings from yesteryear. The total collection spans 1.2TB of material, according to the site.
Many of the #magazines are available to read, too
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/relive-the-pc-magazine-cover-disk-era-with-758-strong-archive-org-cd-rom-collection-1-2tb-treasure-trove-also-includes-floppy-disks-from-as-early-as-1993Wow that takes me back!
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Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌
#floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos
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Oh, look! 🎉 Yet another breathless tech archeology piece! Because who doesn't want to hear about a DOS game nobody played from a place nobody goes? ❄️ It's like Indiana Jones, but with floppy disks and penguins. 🐧💾
https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/ #techarcheology #DOSgames #floppydisks #indiegames #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
How Windows 95 Was Distributed on 28 Floppy Disks Before CD-ROMs Became Standard
📰 Original title: The 28 Installation Disks of Windows 95
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Good grief, totally forgot to publish my latest video on MakerTube:
https://makertube.net/w/anHLNsRGc5nirtEXkLu3Kd
Get your Commodore Floppy Fix TODAY! Deep clean of a CBM 4040!
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Oh WOW, enlighten us more about that show you *never* watched 📺😂. Who knew a phrase could be both "dramatic" and "weirdly precise"? 🎭🔍 Next you'll be telling us about the secret life of floppy disks without ever touching one! 💾🤦♂️
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire #HackerNews #Humor #Drama #FloppyDisks #Precision #HackerNews #ngated
