Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Alexander Grotewohl to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 30 2023 05:45 pm

more likely the floppy drive is an off the shelf part just like in your PC s machines which is where i first saw them .. almost immediately after USB fla

That too :-)

But I think I have seen one as I have described somewhere.

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Re: Re: Today in History - 1977
By: Ross Branham to Dave Drum on Sun Aug 06 2023 09:14 am

I would like to know what other old computers are being used for daily busin

PDP-11 reported in use in a nuclear power plant. They don't plan to decomission the machinery until 2050.

That is so awesome!
I love to hear about old system still in use today.

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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Grant Weasner to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 23 2023 01:24 am

I love to hear about old system still in use today.

Like how WinXP still has a marketshare today?

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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Grant Weasner to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 23 2023 01:24 am

That is so awesome!
I love to hear about old system still in use today.

Then brace for bad news:

THe guy at floppies.com estimates there are floppies left to last until 2026, and then floppies will effectively die :-(

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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Grant Weasner to Richard Falken on Fri Aug 25 2023 01:41 am

There is no need to not have floppies, its like why do we need Polaroid film They are still being used and I hear making a resurgence.

Actually, floppies are still being used for industrial applications. Airlines that use floppies to update navigation systems are buying them in spades.

As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader, and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more floppies.

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On 30 Aug 2023, Richard Falken said the following...

As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader,
and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more
floppies.

more likely the floppy drive is an off the shelf part just like in your PC so you replace the whole drive with the device. they're also used in embroidery
machines which is where i first saw them .. almost immediately after USB flash drives became available.

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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Grant Weasner to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 23 2023 01:24 am

I love to hear about old system still in use today.

Like how WinXP still has a marketshare today?

Well I would have never thought that.

If winXP is still working and doing the job needed for those using it, I say keep it on and alive.

For me I'm too paranoid to put a winXP on the network full time.


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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Grant Weasner to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 23 2023 01:24 am

That is so awesome!
I love to hear about old system still in use today.

Then brace for bad news:

THe guy at floppies.com estimates there are floppies left to last until 2026, and then floppies will effectively die :-(

Well that is bad news. Now I'll have to hold on to mine old ones even more tightly.

There is no need to not have floppies, its like why do we need Polaroid film. They are still being used and I hear making a resurgence.

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As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader, and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more floppies.

I have heard folks talk about floppy emulators and figured that they were talking about software that mounts disk images. I had no idea they were actually a fake floppy with a USB connection. :O

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As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader,
and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more
floppies.

I use floppy emulators on a lot of my retro kit. Recently I've even started using optical drive emulators and removing old broken CD-ROMs. This is mainly for game consoles but I'm sure we'll see something similar for PCs and the like before long.

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I have heard folks talk about floppy emulators and figured that they
were talking about software that mounts disk images. I had no idea
they were actually a fake floppy with a USB connection. :O

That's all floppy emulators do, though: Mount a disk image.

Depending on what kind of emulator you get, it might be SD card or USB drive, or CF card.


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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Candy Cane to Grant Weasner on Wed Aug 23 2023 08:56:40

I love to hear about old system still in use today.

Like how WinXP still has a marketshare today?

That is wild. It was a an OS that a lot of people really liked. It ran most older programs too.

I had a great link to an online system that looked like a winXP system with games on the desktop you could play via web-browser.
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Re: Re: Today in History - 19
By: Richard Falken to Grant Weasner on Wed Aug 30 2023 15:29:47

As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the
floppy reader, and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That way you get to use your old machinery
without having to buy more floppies.

I have a USB floppy drive where I store my gopher pages.

I tried that USB drive on my HP T510 MSDos machine/build to restore a backup from msbackup. msbackup does not like the timing of the USB floppy drive. It thinks there is a physical problem with the drive when attempting restores. And I can't use subst to trick msdos to open the files off the hard drive.
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