screambiogenesis

@Alice@beige.party Sew closed the ends of the extra pants legs, cut a slit opening near the top, and BAM! Überpockets! Now you can carry your sub sandwiches and fishing rods and jumbo Toblerones and...

@cabel@social.panic.com It's too long to fit in a post, but in case anyone wants to try out the code (I did!), it's in the alt-text of the image below. Tested and verified in the Denise C64 emulator.

@phaysis@mastodon.coffee @tubetime@mastodon.social One of them says "yoke". Guessing it's a tool to assist in isolating problems at a repair shop. Like you'd plug the outputs from the circuit board of the set being repaired into this 'known good' CRT (and a few other bits).

@Heliograph @ZachWeinersmith With alt-text: #AltText4You #alttext [edit: Original comic is here: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/a-realistic-alien-invasion ]

@kgutwin@mas.to @tubetime@mastodon.social The cling film is there to protect your face from the razor-sharp shards of consequences!

So, as it turns out, these units are not for 5¼" floppies, but 8" floppies. This thing was IMMENSE. Probably close to two feet (~60cm) wide. It would have dominated your desk, if not the room.

@NF6X@oldbytes.space @Datassette_User@oldbytes.space At nearly two feet tall, it's getting close to "this should double as furniture" size. Maybe a cat bed around the perimeter.

@thomasfuchs @gloriouscow For the 50th anniversary of IBM Japan, they did almost exactly that! From Wikipedia: "IBM Japan expected to sell 200,000 units of [PCjr-derived] JX, but only 40,000 units were produced. The JX was discontinued in 1987, and IBM Japan gave 15,000 units of JX to its employees in honor of the company's 50th anniversary." Ouch.

@bms48 @jwz Those who design text fields that prevent this action should also go to the special hell.

@carstenfranke@mastodon.social Likely less than that at the time; the only disks listed for sale are SSSD. Even so, they're selling 10-packs of them for $30-35. The big rolodex plus all 25 pages plus enough disks to fill it would have cost $1152, or over $4600 today. Whatever the data was, it sure better have been important.

@carstenfranke@mastodon.social Ha, no kidding. First time I got a 400GB microSD card years ago, I took a picture of it next to a full-height 40MB hard drive. ~10,000X the storage in about the volume of just the labels on the lid of the old one...

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Yeah, no idea why they're going title-case-happy with that, unless that's the brand name or something. Here's the whole page. I thought the "H" heading were the ones, but those only hold eight, and go with the "Diskette Easel Binder". So I guess they forgot to list the Ring King Royal Blue Housing Frames™ entirely.

@helpsterTee@social.helpsterte.eu If I'm reading it right, the small one comes with the pages, whereas you have to buy the frames for the big one separately. What's funny is that *after* you add all the pages to the big one, the total price comes to $253.70, a whopping 75¢ more than the small one.

@popio@infosec.exchange Yeah. Bare floppy drives themselves in the same catalogue start at ~$280, or ~$500 for externals. On the same page as the fancy carousel is a bin like you might use today (except steel and without a lid) for $10.95. Can't imagine they sold many of the carousel version...

@Datassette_User@oldbytes.space Same. What a fun bit of ephemera. Sad that if any even sold, they're probably all lost to time.

@tubetime I assume since you were forced to do it, you weren't in a place to say "yeah I fuckin' told you it would," either. Shame.

@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org Wow, then people could actually *die* from lag.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Ohhh, I found the official Ring King catalogue. FD-354-08 is the same as H in the other one, though. 8 disks instead of 12.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Oh goddamn, the rolodex thing from this post and everything else on the page is for *8" disks*. Ring King page 4 is the 5¼" stuff.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Same for the Electronic Systems book. Page one is all 8" with a few 5¼" items on page 110.

@ly2en And a very handsome old TV at that.

Found this album at a swap meet a few months ago and couldn't pass it up. Finally got my turntable fixed and gave it a listen, and hot damn is it a lot less boring that you'd expect from the Xerox name. If this is the kind of fire that was pumping out of the Xerox de Colombia office sound system while they were messing with Xerox Altos (and copiers, I guess) in 1976, sign me the fuck up. #Xerox #Colombia #Vinyl

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ...I think I'll wait for the low-end budget version, the HyPerforma.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Overclocking thermal printers: who could have possibly foreseen any danger whatsoever?

@stux@mstdn.social Engineer... oder staplerfahrer?

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space The wording of the ad is a little weird, but I'm pretty sure the small one comes with the pages already, but the big one comes without. They have a listing for the big pages elsewhere on the page.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Hopefully Ring King were able to survive the massive downturn in demand for binders and binder accessories.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Different catalogue, maybe? Page 4 of this one is Apple II add-in cards. Here's a PDF version of it on IA: https://archive.org/details/TNM_Computer_products_catalog_1980_-_Electronic_S_20180506_0144/mode/2up

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Yeah, brain fart on my part. I even saw the ones on page 110, wondered why they were there, and didn't clock that the heading said "Mini Diskette" compared to just "Diskette" on page one. Looking back at the original picture now, it's pretty obvious they're 8" disks.

@pauldrye@spacey.space Do you think it was the same model, or a later/cheaper imitation?