#floppydisksquad — Public Fediverse posts

I got the #floppy drive for my Dell #D630 !

First try booting the Windows 98 boot disk in my other post failed due to an I/O error, but all other attempts have worked (it booted up :O ).

#HaikuOS doesn't work well with it right now. Research turned up the fact that Haiku has a "usb_floppy" driver, however, and the D630 seems to use USB in its module bay. Digging around in /dev, I found a char special file for the device (see alt text).

#FloppyDiskSquad #floppyDisk #retroComputing #lowTech

Picked up some #floppyDisk​s at a #garageSale for a buck!

I also bought a floppy drive for my trusty Dell #D630 laptop's module bay. I'll be taking class notes on these... or at least backing my notes up to them so the drive doesn't make too much noise during class when I save.

So... which of these might be unreliable? Sony, #Fujifilm , TDK, #Maxell ?
The 2nd one in my hand doesn't have any brand labeling... gonna save that for unimportant stuff.

#floppyDiskSquad #lowTech #DellD630

Lo-Fi panoramas with the Sony Mavica MVC-FD81, 09 November 2022

Practising for the #ShittyCamaraChallenge #1990sCameraChallenge I thought it might be nice to see whether I could stitch together a couple of images from the Sony Mavica. 

Images were straight out of the camera and stiched together with the phone app Bimostitch. 

#Sony, #Floppy, #Camera, #FloppyDiskSquad, #Digital, #Obsolete, #Old, #Retro, #Vintage, #sonymavica, #retrodigital,