who here uses floppy disks still?
i still use them for my computers!! <3
especially my 286! <3
I haven't touched a floppy in years. I mean 15+ years....
:<< they are still pretty neat! just old and old school
yes i am still using diskets or more pecisly tape drives and disks
I got a cool story...
When we were teens my buddy had his BBS hacked and had the whole system wiped.
We as kids in the early 90's called the cops to make a report and we realized after calling them we had a ton of pirated software still
hanging around.
We ended up having to backup all our data to floppies..
Laughable now, because those cops looked at us like idiots. :D
I got a cool story...
When we were teens my buddy had his BBS hacked and had the whole syst wiped.
We as kids in the early 90's called the cops to make a report and we realized after calling them we had a ton of pirated software still hanging around.
We ended up having to backup all our data to floppies..
Laughable now, because those cops looked at us like idiots. :D
i wish i had interesting stories like this but most of my internet experience is combating really bad mental illness and bullies/shit
people online
My first computer had two 5.25" floppy drives, so there's a nostalgic place in my heart for floppies. A year or so ago i inherited a Pentium with a corrupted filesystem. It came with an optical drive but the
BIOS was too old to boot from it. So i had to boot from 3.5" floppy to recover data from the disk and install a new OS (FreeDOS 1.3).
* A DOS boot disk with a dial-up PPP Internet stack, DOSLynx, telnet,yoooo thats a cool idea!
etc.
* BasLinux, a Linux live-floppy with a surprising amount of
functionality. It uses kernel 2.0. A second floppy contains X11.
* QNX
I could tell you a few interesting stories from the 90's BBS days. We
had all sorts of drama. :>
It was around a couple different sysops. One ended up being arrested. :)
However, I can also relate to morons and flame wars back then too. Bunch of people trying to be tough guys until they meet you face to face. :) Ohhhh goood times.
I got a cool story...
When we were teens my buddy had his BBS hacked and had
the whole system wiped.
We as kids in the early 90's called the cops to make a
report and we realized after calling them we had a ton
of pirated software still hanging around.
We ended up having to backup all our data to floppies..
Laughable now, because those cops looked at us like idiots. :D
who here uses floppy disks still?
I still have 140 and 800k floppies for the Apple II range, but they're really superceded by emulation options. Most of the floppies are
riddled with mould.
who here uses floppy disks still?
i still use them for my computers!! <3
especially my 286! <3
I don't miss floppies. What is it about them that
you like?
What was the outcome of this? Did local PD put their best team of
digital forensic investigators on the case? :)
There were some interesting times with the law back in the day, figuring out where it fits in the emerging digital world.
everything!!!!!! the slowness of the reading
THE NOISES THE FLOPPY DRIVE MAKES WHILE READING IT!
the storing of files off the HDD :D <3 :3
Ben Collver wrote to mary4 <=-
My first computer had two 5.25" floppy drives, so there's a nostalgic place in my heart for floppies.
AKAcastor wrote to Niter3 <=-
There were some interesting times with the law back in the day,
figuring out where it fits in the emerging digital world.
Pure Nihilism! BBS ran on an Apple // with two floppies. It felt likeLOL flop flop flop flop floopy flop xD
every time you saved a message, it had to chunkachunkachunka and delete
a message to make room... :)
Bruce Sterling's book "The Hacker Crackdown" does a good job of documenting those very weird times. I had a BBS during Operation
Sundevil, and remember boards disappearing with no warning.
The book also talks a lot about early law enforcement engaging hackers
and the founding of the EFF. It's worth a read, and available freely online.
There were some interesting times with the law back in the day,
figuring out where it fits in the emerging digital world.
Bruce Sterling's book "The Hacker Crackdown" does a good job of documenting those very weird times. I had a BBS during Operation
Sundevil, and remember boards disappearing with no warning.
The book also talks a lot about early law enforcement engaging hackers
and the founding of the EFF. It's worth a read, and available freely online.
not really? my floppies are clean. you must of stored them somewhere moise and cool
I don't miss floppies. What is it about them that you like?
book is "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll. The true story written by
There were some interesting times with the law back in the day, figuring out where it fits in the emerging digital world.
Bruce Sterling's book "The Hacker Crackdown" does a good job of documenting those very weird times. I had a BBS during Operation Sundevil, and remember boards disappearing with no warning.
The book also talks a lot about early law enforcement engaging hacker and the founding of the EFF. It's worth a read, and available freely online.
"The Hacker Crackdown" is on my bookshelf, but it may be time for a re-read, I don't remember when I last read it. A great recommendation.
Drifting just slightly (but still within very weird times), another
great book is "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll. The true story written by theastronomer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who uncovered an international hacking ring based in West Germany, working
for the KGB, penetrating American research and military computers. A fascinating story, anyone who hasn't read "The Cuckoo's Egg" should give it a read!
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good, as is
"Cyberpunk".
I've had fun working on challenges to fit lots of functionality onto a single floppy. I've done a few projects of my own, and i remember
others:
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
as is
"Cyberpunk".
AKAcastor wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
Drifting just slightly (but still within very weird times), another
great book is "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll. The true story written by theastronomer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who uncovered an international hacking ring based in West Germany
+1 for "The Cuckoo's Egg". Stoll was also on an episode of
Nova talking about tracking down said hackers. The recent
conspiracy theory ramblings that have been posted around come
from someone calling themselves, "pengo", which is a name
that appears in the book.
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good, as is
"Cyberpunk".
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good, as is
"Cyberpunk".
i did not know cyber punks are an irl thing! :D
Hello tenser!
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
as is
"Cyberpunk".
Do you have an Author for that one?
i'd say keep the machine as is
That old Sharp laptop sounds cool! I too have experienced instant
regret
more than once attempting to modify/repair hardware and
unintentionally
bricking it for eternity.
I wonder what caused it to eat hard drives.
Once i had a Sharp pocket PC with a MIPS processor. It came with an
old
version of Windows CE and i installed NetBSD on it. It had a PCMCIA
slot,
which i could use to get on WIFI. It ran NetHack and a text editor
just
fine, but it was definitely a situation where i would want to
cross-compile the binaries from a more powerful system.
Not sure which book is "Cyberpunk", searching for that is tricky as it brings up all kinds of stories in the cyberpunk genre, hard to look it up without the author's name.
Not sure which book is "Cyberpunk", searching for that is tricky as it brings up all kinds of stories in the cyberpunk
genre, hard to look it up
without the author's name.
https://bookmanager.com/tbm/ ?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=OqerFF92q0u4cgiz1T
30xw
Mary began this thread and I have to be honest and say I haven't touched a Floppy Disk in years.
Mary began this thread and I have to be honest and say I haven't touched
a Floppy Disk in years.
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the right atmosphere.
Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the
right atmosphere.
I've been going through a retro reading binge lately. Decided to
re-read Bruce Sterling's Hackers book, just picked up Slatalla's MOD,
and have The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll to read. I'm going to see
him speak at the Computer History Museum about BBSes tomorrow night,
and meeting two old sysop friends of mine - Taipan Enigma from &TOTSE
and Dr. Strangelove from Just Say Yes. They were the founders, I was
one of the first BBSes in NIRVANAnet(tm) back in the '90s.
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
Hello poindexter,
24 Apr 24 06:45, you wrote to me:
Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the
right atmosphere.
I've been going through a retro reading binge lately. Decided to re-read Bruce Sterling's Hackers book, just picked up Slatalla's MOD, and have The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll to read. I'm going to see him speak at the Computer History Museum about BBSes tomorrow night, and meeting two old sysop friends of mine - Taipan Enigma from &TOTSE and Dr. Strangelove from Just Say Yes. They were the founders, I was one of the first BBSes in NIRVANAnet(tm) back in the '90s.
yeah i am on this retro reading wave as well. i read hackers as well last autumn, and now i started Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet.
Ben Collver wrote to niter3 <=-
A friend of mine recommends Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson as the epitome
of cyperpunk fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/HTML/
Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
https://www.rudyrucker.com/juicyghosts/HTML/
who here uses floppy disks still?
i still use them for my computers!! <3
especially my 286! <3
:<< they are still pretty neat! just old and old school
I got a cool story...
When we were teens my buddy had his BBS hacked and had the whole system wiped.
We as kids in the early 90's called the cops to make a report and we realized after calling them we had a ton of pirated software still
hanging around.
i wish i had interesting stories like this but most of my internet experience is combating really bad mental illness and bullies/shit people online
I could tell you a few interesting stories from the 90's BBS days. We
had all sorts of drama. :>
It was around a couple different sysops. One ended up being arrested. :)
No you freaking didn't!! Muahahahahahaha - I can just hear it now, two kids explaining to the cops that someone had wiped their important bulletin board system machine. And that was ILLEGAL and damaged the machine - 'It's all gonnnnnnne' - lolzzzz!!
Dude - my entire teenage years were spent with BBS friends, girlfriends, other sysops, scene drama - all of it. TBH, we were the coolest nerds around I think! I went to four proms!!
So many bonfires and parties and pizza meetups - what was the name of
YOUR coffee house hangout? Mine was....... SOMETHING Grounds; dang I
can't remember it... it was some hipster/hippy name AHHH - SACRED
GROUNDS. Lots of BBS drama happened @ The Sacred Grounds, man!
niter3 wrote to paulie420 <=-
It wasn't a coffee house, but a bowling alley. One of our friends out
of our group owned a bowling alley so we had a room upstairs to get together.
I do utilize SDCard solutions for most of the above, and other HDD replacements like CFCard boards - but yea, using the actual media DOES do it for me... :P
can't remember it... it was some hipster/hippy name AHHH - SACRED GROUNDS. Lots of BBS drama happened @ The Sacred Grounds, man!
It wasn't a coffee house, but a bowling alley. One of our friends out of our group owned a bowling alley so we had a room upstairs to get together.
Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....
I've posted before about this, but I lived next door to a house
converted into a pub - our front porches were combined so I could walk
to the pub without stepping on a sidewalk.
They sold beer and wine, pipe tobacco and cigars, and had separate
rooms - a living room with comfy chairs and a fireplace, a room with
tables people could work at (this was near a university), a back room
and 2 porches. We had many gettogethers there.
The two fairly regular locations here was, Zone 3, a laser tag arena, and Charlton's, a pool hall. When I say pool hall it was pretty large, 3 floors, karaoke, live band, and a floor of tables all fully licensed.
That's pretty sweat. We only had the bowling alley, otherwise we would just go to each other's homes.
It was also difficult for us to all meet up because some of our friends lived in the city just outside ours. Not that it was far, but when you're young with no drivers license, you were begging your parents to drive you. Even the city buses didn't take you between the city/towns..
Let's see... I still use floppies on my Apple IIe, C=64, C=128, Dolchi use SSDs for the main C: drive on my computers but i also use CFcards for auxilary secondary drives like D: on my 286! :D
PAC 60 and a couple laptops; 286, Pentium and a ThinkPad.
I do utilize SDCard solutions for most of the above, and other HDD replacements like CFCard boards - but yea, using the actual media DOES
do it for me... :P
Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....
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