When you have lots of old computer parts...

[maycontainthunder]

This is something I encountered a while ago. I always admire the creativity of people who build things like this!

Yes, I did intentionally choose a Gary Numan song because he may well be on the spectrum!

 

[Judge]

Funny. Reminded me of how much I wish I would have kept my old Teac 5.25 dual combination floppy drive. Where it would have occupied space in a closet. Silly me.

Something tactile to me about those ancient 5.25 disks. Loved the soft outer surface of them, and the little "click" they made when you pushed them into their slot on a floppy drive. No joy in comparison with the more common 3.5 floppy.

Time marches on...but there's no joy in inserting a USB device into their slot either.

 

[maycontainthunder]

I remember those old 5.25 drives too! It was at special school on BBC computers. You'd put the disk in and rotate the catch. Everything was done by command line, there was no actual operating system!

 

[Judge]

I remember those old 5.25 drives too! It was at special school on BBC computers. You'd put the disk in and rotate the catch. Everything was done by command line, there was no actual operating system!

LOL...I forgot about those earliest 5.25 drives with that switch you had to rotate!

Yeah, I still recall using MSDOS 3.3 at the command line. But then my cousin introduced me to Xtree...and later came that GUI called "Windows 3". The command line was never the same.

I get all warm and fuzzy just seeing an image of Xtree. XTree - Wikipedia

Though I kind of enjoy at times using "sudo apt-get install......". Linux can be nostalgic at times.

 

[abirdinnewyork]

 

[abirdinnewyork]

 

[FreeDiver]

 

[maycontainthunder]

My reaction to the poor hotdog's demise is pretty much like this;

 

[tkcartoonist]

There were a lot of Sega Genesis games that used GEMS to record music. Apparently, this site has a link to download GEMS to try for yourself (although you'd probably have to run it in a DOS emulator as it's an old DOS program from the 90s).