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FLOPTIMUS PRIME 💾🤖

#floppylife #floppydisk #copythatfloppy #discatte_aesthetics

Feb 27 at 2:50pmWeb
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large floppy disk drive the size of a small floppy disk drive
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notice anything unique or unusual about this drive?
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(hint: floppies tend to be double sided)
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at least we don't have to worry about broken belts with this one..

look at that direct drive spindle 

Show threadOzzelot Mar 4
@discatte
tired: direct drive turntables
inspired: direct drive floppy drives
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@ozzelot setting my rpm wrong so the game plays all high pitch
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@discatte what in the cost-saving
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@arrjay read up on this chunkyboi. https://www.macgeek.org/museum/sony400kdrive/ (although I think this is the model after it)
SONY's First Flexible 3.5-inch Disk Drive

Show threadBoris KretzingerFeb 27
@discatte That's what a floppy disk dressed as Borg looks like 🤣✨ Even with eye piece, pretty good cosplay
Show threadmike805Feb 27
@discatte Yes, no second head on that one. I have a typewriter that takes that sort of 720 KB floppy disk. With a USB floppy drive I can even get output from the typewriter into a PC.
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@mike805 far too many kb! these did 280k.