lollers I was just going through my stuff and agonizing if I should chuck my XP stuff.
Well you’re a huge nerd!
I feel the same way about my Composite to SCART adaptor cable
I have one, and I’m in North America… I saw it at a thrift store and recognized it, not something I expected to see at a Goodwill.
Yeah American TVs never seem to have them. I’m not sure why.
They were awful actually, they were far larger than they needed to be and they were very much like USB in that you needed to turn them over three times in order to insert them. It’s not even as if the picture quality was even any better than composite so I don’t know why we bothered.
I think it was based on the 1960s VTR connector on studio equipment, or Cinch-Jones connectors from WWII. Quite large, yes. I think the connector could carry composite as well as RGB signals, and have various pass through modes.
Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.
The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.
As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.
Still have mine too
MS-DOS 3 on 5 1/4" floppies.
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I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
Rick Beato thinks it’s great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFisOTDzGuE
The kids have heard that one, it’s the credits song on season 1 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures.
My PC didn’t support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME
Older than this. I stopped before XP.
How do you stop, please teach me master.
I installed Ubuntu, and never looked back. I’d recommend trying it, and I hope it fits you too.
Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
:’(
Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
Almost had this memorized but had a friend I could call who had done so.
I’m worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.
I haven’t seen any of these documents for years because it’s been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.
USB floppy drives aren’t expensive.
It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.
By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.
And to not be a hypocrite, I’ll get going on my own similar project I’ve been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?
Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.
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I’m finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I’ll check in with you!
Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.
Holy shit … now you’ve got me panicking
40 disks! … I’m was only worried about two or three disks for myself … now you’ve got me wondering how to get this done
I don’t know if I should thank you or curse you … thanks?
It’s not like all of them were important personal stuff. I just figured it was easy enough to save everything now and look into what’s on them later. I’d just been doing
dd conv=noerrorbut I need to see if there’s a better way.Some of my disks were still error-free, so there’s hope for yours!
Do it next weekend.
order the drive today
gather up the discs on wednesday
test the drive on thursday
Maybe it’s time you switched over to ZIP drive?
It’s like a floppy disk but the next big thing.
I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he’s standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool
My dude, you shouldn’t post the key in open 🫣
Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you…
