I don't mean to but I lost one of my best friends partially this way :(

It's hard to control sometimes

If I ever find someone who cares about communism/Unix/Plan 9/computer architecture (I see all these as deeply interconnected) as much as I do our power will be unstoppable

Edit: Thanks everyone for your replies and for sharing your experiences, it means a lot to me. I want to reply to everyone I just don't know what to say lol

  • Yurt_Owl
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    7 months ago

    The macs weren't kept in good condition. Left in an attic and riddled with mould. Managed to clean a lot of it out but for some reason the floppy got it the worst. I may be able to be up an external floppy drive though but the risk with buying such old hardware is its sometimes DOA cos the seller doesn't have the means to test it anymore. It was hard enough to find working original ps2 controllers an external floppy will be a challenge.

    Then i got to locate the damn software! I could write my own floppies but I don't have the fuzziest where to start. Those old macs need like very specific single track floppies or smthn.

    I have very much enjoyed chatting with you. A me or me equivalent would definitely get along with you IRL. Feel free to DM me if you ever wanna talk about tech.

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      The macs weren't kept in good condition. Left in an attic and riddled with mould. Managed to clean a lot of it out but for some reason the floppy got it the worst.

      Ohh I'm sorry to hear they were kept in such poor condition. A lot of really cool hardware has suffered the same fate. I look at eBay or other similar places a lot for fun (rarely have the money to buy anything sadly) and the state of some of the listings there is just sad. Like rare hardware just covered in rust and dust cuz someone just stored it in a barn or something.

      I may be able to be up an external floppy drive though but the risk with buying such old hardware is its sometimes DOA cos the seller doesn't have the means to test it anymore. It was hard enough to find working original ps2 controllers an external floppy will be a challenge.

      Yeahh, I've just made peace with the fact that I may have to spend a lot of time fixing whatever I buy at this point. But that can be fun too :3

      Maybe instead of trying to find new floppy drives and stuff you could try transferring data over any serial ports on the machine or something. But I don't know too much about 68k Macs (but I do have a few PowerPC macs hehe).

      I have very much enjoyed chatting with you. A me or me equivalent would definitely get along with you IRL. Feel free to DM me if you ever wanna talk about tech.

      I've enjoyed chatting with you too! If you want maybe we could exchange instant messenger contacts in DMs or something.