Philip Steiner 🇨🇦 🚀
DgarI found a box of drink coasters in the shape of a save icon!
How cool is that?
Red Shirt Dude@dgar #BigAlcohol is known for exploiting anything, and everything.
The FrogIn all seriousness there's an entire generation who have absolutely no clue about the meaning of the save icon.
Justin Skists@Lily_and_Frog @dgar They also probably don't know why they're called "files" and why they keep them in "folders".
@dlenares
Atom596@atom596 @Lily_and_Frog @dgar I'm sorry. It's all in jest. I'm fairly sure my generation have forgotten why we CC: people and what carbon paper was.
Paul Gass-Feeley@atom596 @jskists @Lily_and_Frog @dgar and they forget how their parents thought the same about their generation.
Zeborah@atom596 @jskists @Lily_and_Frog @dgar It's not about stupidity. Current uni students are less likely to understand files and folders because they're more likely to use a device where the file structure is obscured by the apps.
They'll come to the helpdesk in a panic saying "I've lost all my Endnote citations and my assignment's due!" so you ask where they saved the Endnote file (like, their laptop, uni desktop, cloud...) and they're all "....??? In Endnote, duh."
@atom596 @jskists @Lily_and_Frog @dgar This is a way of life which fills me with horror and dread (I've lived through enough laptop migrations and new software variants that I not only want to know where all my files are, I want them to be in a standard format I can easily migrate from system to system) but I can understand how it's come about from the user perspective, and can even grudgingly understand why the app-makers made their (regrettable) decisions.
Benoît Jones@zeborah @atom596 @jskists @Lily_and_Frog @dgar
This is why I loved having a Windows phone (RIP). Android and iOS are so opaque about where things are saved it does my head in.
This is why I loved having a Windows phone (RIP). Android and iOS are so opaque about where things are saved it does my head in.
Joel VanderWerf@dgar Yeah, but does your computer have a built-in Cup/Drink (CD) holder that extends and retracts with the push of a button?
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@joelvanderwerf @dgar Yeah, brilliant isn’t it. So thoughtful ;-)
@joelvanderwerf
There was a time…🧓📜🖋️
There was a time…🧓📜🖋️
@jacquiharper@joelvanderwerf @dgar Ooh, my mother had one of those!
Ali N. Askin
fuzzface@dgar Go stand in the corner and think about what you have done. 🤪
StillKindaHoping@dgar
The #asymmetry of this #coaster #design is #slipshod. Maybe if you can get them in some fun colors!🎨 🔼❇🆎 #soiree #nerdscanparty 👫👬👭
@talia_christine
The #asymmetry of this #coaster #design is #slipshod. Maybe if you can get them in some fun colors!🎨 🔼❇🆎 #soiree #nerdscanparty 👫👬👭
@talia_christine
bee@dgar Please do not touch the protection slider, your drink may disappear
CellyBlue
[moved] Floppy 💾Oh wow, hey it's Dave in the picture! Haven't seen him in years. @dgar Please send my regards. 😉
Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸@dgar These Sony coasters cancelled my first engineering design project at Hewlett-Packard. 👹 ⛩️ 🤣
Sergio VDS
lynfox@sergiovds @dgar
All of them and one of these too.
The white rectangle is a card (think: floppy credit card). 256bytes per side. Yes half a kb per card.
4k of ROM and 4k of RAM for loading the programs, & storing the data.
We managed full accounting s/w, using overlays, programmed in an OCTAL machine code.
And there was an RS232 connection for the IBM Golfball typewriter to print out the reports. #retroComputing
All of them and one of these too.
The white rectangle is a card (think: floppy credit card). 256bytes per side. Yes half a kb per card.
4k of ROM and 4k of RAM for loading the programs, & storing the data.
We managed full accounting s/w, using overlays, programmed in an OCTAL machine code.
And there was an RS232 connection for the IBM Golfball typewriter to print out the reports. #retroComputing
Seth Kaplan@sergiovds @dgar Anyone else use the 8 inch discs with a Wang dedicated word processing machine or a Digital (DEC) "mini-computer"
Stephen Rockower MD@sergiovds @dgar All of the above
@sergiovds
5.25 and 3.5 only.
5.25 and 3.5 only.
DeusExtreme left during CS class in* school. Also, “Don’t wipe that black strip at the top with your fingers!”
Extreme right to split/cut one mp3 song into multiple floppies.
Rockymtngrrl 🏞🌻🇺🇸@sergiovds @dgar
Haha! Forgot about the original floppy. I remember the keyboard in the big empty room with tape reels. 😂 👵 A friend (gone now) showed me the new prototype mouse. "See the resemblance?"
Haha! Forgot about the original floppy. I remember the keyboard in the big empty room with tape reels. 😂 👵 A friend (gone now) showed me the new prototype mouse. "See the resemblance?"
Hairy LarryAfter they finished using the drink coasters they started installing a device in PCs that if you pushed a button a little tray would come out for you to put your coffee cup on.
Takizakura
Aviva Gary@dgar lol 😆 I laughed too hard at this...
Oli@dgar “they’re limited print coasters to celebrate the launch of Win95! They’re all labeled x/25 and I have them all!”
😂
😂
@olisuritz
Various versions of MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and shareware games could be found on my collection. The last thing I bought on floppy disk was Doom II, and it failed out of the box, so I got it on CD, and bought a CD-ROM drive (2x or 4x, can’t remember) All this resulted in a weekend of fighting with a config.sys and autoexec.bat to get a CD-ROM working.
Oh, and IPX networking over terminated coaxial cable. Nightmares.
We didn’t actually play Doom that weekend. And never purchased anything on floppy disk again. My first copy of Windows 95 was on CD. 😁
Various versions of MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and shareware games could be found on my collection. The last thing I bought on floppy disk was Doom II, and it failed out of the box, so I got it on CD, and bought a CD-ROM drive (2x or 4x, can’t remember) All this resulted in a weekend of fighting with a config.sys and autoexec.bat to get a CD-ROM working.
Oh, and IPX networking over terminated coaxial cable. Nightmares.
We didn’t actually play Doom that weekend. And never purchased anything on floppy disk again. My first copy of Windows 95 was on CD. 😁
@dgar I had both Win95 on floppy set *and* eventually CD. Floppy #23 often had read fails which is why we switched… not to mention with the CD you could let it install by itself overnight.
I remember using null modem to play games like Doom. Fun time.
Oh and coax throughout the house but the computers were on diff circuits so there would be a grousing tingling sensation when you touched the termination of the cable!! Fun.
covidh8r@dgar LMAO!!!!
catsynth / amanda c@dgar it’s funny, I found myself scouring CatSynth HQ for coasters like these today, and found quite a few 😺💾
TheJen
Macdaptable@dgar That's funny.
Aanakutti
Sunny
Stephanie Reed ♠️@dgar Somebody 3D printed a bunch of save icons, cool!
gavinisdie 
@dgar awesome