En una visita a una librería de usados, encontré Diskettes, una novela gráfica uruguaya que mezcla dictadura, programación y estética vintage. Pero lo que más me intrigó no fue la historia… sino unos fragmentos de código que aparecen entre capítulos. ¿Decoración? ¿Metanarrativa? ¿Huevos de Pascua?

Me obsesioné, investigué cada uno y hasta le escribí al autor.

Esta es la historia de Diskettes y la trama tentativa del código decorativo.

🔗 https://tecnolocuras.com/historias/diskettes/

#Diskettes #RetroTech #CulturaDigital

In 1994-95, most of my PC #diskettes were formatted with #FDFormat, a program that allowed to put 1.7Mb of information on 1.44Mb diskettes. Yes, that 300kb counted. And you just needed a 1.5kb driver.

Unluckily, those diskettes couldn't be read by Win95 (which was distributed in 1.6Mb diskettes), and can't be read on linux, unless someone writes the right cylinder-sector mapping.
So I'm using #Freedos and the USBDOS (usb 1.0) driver to put he info into usb sticks.
Does anyone know better ways?

Usar diskettes para armar una PirateBox usando un router TPLink MR3020

#Diskettes #FloppyDisk #MR3020 #PirateBox #Router #SysAdmin #TPLink #WiFi

https://osiux.com/2012-06-01-pirate-box-floppy-disk.html

This year, I celebrate 30 years as a Linux user. I fondly remember downloading around 30 diskettes with gzipped tarfiles on them. The distribution was called SLS. After installing, there was no X. I had to compile X11R5 myself to support my bleeding edge S3 graphics card, plugged into a «VESA local bus».

Calling up my university with a modem and transferring files using sz. IP and SLIP/PPP came soon after. Compiling my first kernel, 0.99.10.

#old #linux #sls #comp.os.linux.announce #kernel #linus #sls #diskettes #geek