their peoples used storage devices they called “floppies” yet they were rigid squares. no one is certain of the origin of this term and the leading theory is that the squares simply calcified over time.
funny. That’s exactly how archeology works. They try to fit the logic and customs of today into what people actually did in the past
Technical Museum Brno has some 2000s stuff on display… Portable CD player, compact digital camera and a desktop inkjet printer, the same model that’s been our family’s primary one until 2019 and we still use sometimes. Of course, it’s just a minor part at the end of the consumer electronics section.
They also have a mini DOS SBC you can use (there is a
C:\FEMBOYSandC:\UWUdirectory) and make extensive use of Raspberry Pis for web-based touchscreen infokiosks and emulation of Atari and C64 games.I went to a museum in Georgia with a bunch of tech on display. It was pretty neat.
If you’re ever in San Francisco, the Computer History Museum is fantastic.
That was one of the options for my gf and mine’s vacation this summer, but we ultimately decided to do NYC instead. I do miss being in Cali.
Cool but why did they include those 3D printed save icons?
Heh. I’ve had this thought many times, that we used the floppy as a save icon for longer than we even used the damn floppy, and for almost that whole time, there were tons of people coming online who’d never used floppies and would get no help whatsoever from that icon.
Recently I notice that the bookmark has become the metaphor for “save.” Literally an icon showing the end of a bookmark hanging forward. But is this actually an improvement? Does anyone fucking read books anymore??
Look closer. Those are 5.25" floppies, which never had the popularity as save icons that 3.5" floppies did.
To be fair, even though 5¼" floppies are arguably more deserving of the name, I feel like most people still think of the 3½" disks when they hear “floppy disk.”
They were floppy on the inside
Yeah, but 5¼" were floppy inside and out
(flashback of illiterate mundanes calling 3½" diskettes ‘hard disks’)
and then Hard Disk Drives entered the scene :O
I’m not about to let a little thing like perfect factual accuracy get in the way of a dumb joke.
Fair.
Counterpoint: my school had old and outdated shit… So it’s not like that was the state of contemporary computing by the time it landed in our district/classrooms
I see that and think, “oh, crap, did I take my cholesterol pill this morning?”
bruh… thanks for reminding me! 👊
And your fiber supplement
I watched an entire budding civilization get snuffed out by dysentery in green monochrome… time to die!
I went to the henry ford museum like a year and a half ago, they had Pokémon red and blue on display and I felt that in my soul and bones.
The oldest computer I’ve ever messed with personally is either an Apple IIe like the pic or a Pong console; depends on whether or not you consider the OG Pong to be a computer.
And boy was that Pong console old. My uncle only let it run for like 5 minutes because it would start to get hella hot and smell bad. 🤣
I can feel the sensation of that disk resisting, then getting sucked into the drive just from looking at this picture.
Being in a museum doesn’t make it ancient. Moma had the iPod and iMac on display when those things were like 5-10 years old.
My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago
My first computer ran CP/M and had 8 inch floppy drives.
My dad had a DEC something or other that was basically a cube with most of its space being two 8" floppy drives… No clue if it ran cp/m…
Did the drives make a loud “ca-CHUNK” noise when you closed the latch on them? That part really stands out in my mind.
Nope, not that one. A better one.
C-64 users represent! I had a friend whose parents could afford to buy an Apple for him. He was jealous of my Commodore. :D
Hell yeah. That smurf game with the Michael Jackson music.
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C-64 users represent
Checking in 🤜🏼
Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Outrun, Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble, Defender of the Crown, TKO Sports Boxing and many many more great games ❤️
Amiga had entered the room.
and Amiga is still going strong, in the shades :)
A lot of those came out for both systems, yes, but I played them on the C64 🤷🏻
It was in high school actually. I’m soooooo old
Man, I may have grown up with 64-bit PCs and Arduinos, but the ol’ Apple II is still surprisingly usable (though obviously don’t expect it to be able to run Crysis).
Somebody has to have ported Crysis to the NES, right? That uses the same MOS6502 CPU (but has some beefier graphics hardware)
That’s the problem though, with old systems like that, the CPU was like 1/10th of the equation, the hardware was far more important. Porting something often involved a full rewrite.
