Wasn’t expecting to have to get this far into the weeks trying to write to a floppy disk #retrocomputing
30.4.2025 01:42Wasn’t expecting to have to get this far into the weeks trying to write to a floppy disk #retrocomputingCleaning the heads on my floppy drive. How is your Easter going? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #exidysorcerer
20.4.2025 06:33Cleaning the heads on my floppy drive. How is your Easter going? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #exidysorcererWhat do you think?
19.1.2025 08:29What do you think?But over coffee last month Blair assured me that he was more directly inspired by the ship in the 1974 film Dark Star
19.1.2025 08:27But over coffee last month Blair assured me that he was more directly inspired by the ship in the 1974 film Dark StarI managed to track down the author who was thrilled as he did not have a copy and did not know it had survived. I have always thought that the ship he designed was channeling the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica
19.1.2025 08:26I managed to track down the author who was thrilled as he did not have a copy and did not know it had survived. I have always thought that...The @TheSpaceshipper reminded me that yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the science fiction film Dark Star. In 2017 I was able to successfully recover from audio cassette a complete copy of Interceptor - a 1982 game for the #exidysorcerer microcomputer.
19.1.2025 08:24The @TheSpaceshipper reminded me that yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the science fiction film Dark Star. In 2017 I...Making great use of the high resolution programmable graphic characters of the 1978 Exidy Sorcerer is this animated message of happiness and peace by Hermine Bakker of the Exidy Sorcerer Gebruikers Groep in the Netherlands.
24.12.2024 04:09Making great use of the high resolution programmable graphic characters of the 1978 Exidy Sorcerer is this animated message of happiness and...While visiting the Netherlands on the way to iPres2024 I was pleasantly surprised to find that the business Expert still exists #digipres
9.11.2024 08:20While visiting the Netherlands on the way to iPres2024 I was pleasantly surprised to find that the business Expert still exists #digipresThis floppy had a creased jacket so to image it safely I cut open the jacket and placed the “cookie” biscuit? inside a jacket in good condition
17.10.2024 10:23This floppy had a creased jacket so to image it safely I cut open the jacket and placed the “cookie” biscuit? inside a jacket in good...A sobering image of a floppy disk that self-destructed while being read. Over time the hygroscopic binder that holds the magnetic particles onto the disk breaks down. Floppies are also vulnerable to mold.
7.10.2024 08:40A sobering image of a floppy disk that self-destructed while being read. Over time the hygroscopic binder that holds the magnetic particles...⬆️
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