Mastodawn

@thomasfuchs One day the Compact Floppy Disks / CF-2 will rise again. Mark my words! And as an adapter, hell, you could fit a CF card in there.

(I bought one of these drives and used it as D2 on a used Apple IIe I grabbed from the local newspaper classifieds back in 1987 or so -- only ever had four blank disks, so it didn't get a lot of use. Was novel, though, especially here in the states.)

UPDATE: Oh, I wrote a blog post about this a few years back:

https://bytecellar.com/2019/02/25/a-look-at-the-short-lived-3-inch-compact-floppy-disk/

#Matsushita #Hitachi #CompactFloppyDisk #FloppyDisk #disk #CF2 #maxell #vintatgecomputing #retrocomputing #media

Blake Patterson Jan 8, 2025

It was 40 years ago this week that the Atari ST was announced at the January 1985 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Not long after, in the fall of 1986, I got my own Atari 520ST system and count it as one my favorites among the many systems I haveowned over the years. Here, at the ST's 40th Anniversary, I share one of my earliest and most memorable experiences with my beloved 520ST, which took place on a Halloween night long, long ago.

https://bytecellar.com/2016/11/10/the-year-that-starglider-and-the-atari-st-saved-halloween/

Today, I have a nearly identical 520ST setup here in the Byte Cellar and I still count it among the most beloved of my vintage systems. I hope you enjoy the memory.

#Atari #AtariST #Atari520ST #vintatgecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #JackTramiel #Jackintosh #Halloween #blog #memorylane #nostalgia #CES #CES2025 #vintagetech #ByteCellar #retrogaming #retrogames #Firebird #Rainbird #Starglider