Re: AOL diskettes
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 5:00 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ > > I like it! > > The ratios are wrong: it's about twice as thick as it ought to be. It's > apparently been designed by somebody who has seen a picture of a floppy but > never used one. > One might even say.. it's double density. (I'll see myself out) >
Re: AOL diskettes
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 12:00, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: > > Get a LACK table from IKEA (€6.99) Speaking of LACK, I guess most people might know this, but it's the same size as a standard 19" rack and can be used to hold rackmount kit. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack This may be best employed in the home if you are deaf or hard-of-hearing, though, from my own experience of rackmount servers on the coffee table... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 16:59, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: > > (BTW, trying to contact IKEA to get it sorted was very much like trying to > contact Google except that Google doesn't have sacrificial call centre workers > in a different country to intercept the complaints and lose them, Google just > doesn't take calls from anyone.) Actually, I feel a strange and atypical urge to defend IKEA here. I bought a 2nd hand IKEA bed off some chap on Fesse Bouc a few years ago. He said his girlfriend didn't like it and it gave her back ache. It was partly disassembled. When I came to rebuilt it, using a PDF of the instructions from the WWW, I discovered an important screw was missing. I went to my local IKEA, showed them the pic and the name of the bed, and they just gave me the right screw, free of charge for a 2nd hand item. When I came to assemble the bed, I discovered that the fool had assembled it wrongly in the first place and used the "missing" bolt in the wrong hole, making the whole frame slightly twisted and that's probably why his G/F didn't like it. But kudos to IKEA who publish the instructions for free online, facilitating the 2nd hand market, and to their after-care which includes no-questions-asked parts even for later owners. They also swapped a backpack of mine when a critical zip failed, even though I bought it in a different country and had no receipt. I think maybe the thing is to go there, not try to phone them. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
Re: AOL diskettes
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 12:00:33 +0100, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: >On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: >>> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ >> I like it! > > The ratios are wrong: it's about twice as thick as it ought to be. It's > apparently been designed by somebody who has seen a picture of a floppy but > never used one. > Maybe the idea is that when the top gets marked, you can sand it down and paint it again multiple times so you don't need to use those matching coasters that are so hard to get nowadays? > >> But I hate the price. > > Get a LACK table from IKEA (€6.99) and adorn it with 3D prints, or even old > floppies? I'd advise against trying to machine patterns into it though as > that low-end stuff is basically made of laminated cheese. > Peter, I'm shocked to see you recommend IKEA! Have you not suffered from (physical) IKEA catalogue spam the same way we have over here? (BTW, trying to contact IKEA to get it sorted was very much like trying to contact Google except that Google doesn't have sacrificial call centre workers in a different country to intercept the complaints and lose them, Google just doesn't take calls from anyone.) Regards, Peter Coghlan.
Re: AOL diskettes
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: >> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ > I like it! The ratios are wrong: it's about twice as thick as it ought to be. It's apparently been designed by somebody who has seen a picture of a floppy but never used one. > But I hate the price. Get a LACK table from IKEA (€6.99) and adorn it with 3D prints, or even old floppies? I'd advise against trying to machine patterns into it though as that low-end stuff is basically made of laminated cheese.
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ I like it! But I hate the price. The problem is right there in the name of the site. :D g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
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On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ I like it! But I hate the price. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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>>> I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of >>> these... >>> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ >> >> I just love that table > > Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K. > The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it, > and the shutter may have lost its spring.. The one *with* the spring working has a handy catch basin for your distal finger fragments. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm still right. ---
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What's the going price for a Cray round sofa/bench?
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I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of these... https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: I just love that table Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K. The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it, and the shutter may have lost its spring..
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of these... https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ I have a RAMAC platter. (24" diameter; arguably FIRST hard disk, from 1958?; when they wouldn't let Nikita Krushchev into Disneyland, they took him to the IBM factory, instead.) It has enough damage to no longer be usable in a drive. I have a round patio table base. I still need a 2 foot round piece of [UV absorbing?] [tempered?] glass. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
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I just love that table On 1/18/2022 3:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 13:38:32 -0700, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: I wish I'd kept some. I had some AOL CDs from slightly later that made decent coasters for decades. Although I guess with the shutter, the floppy wouldn't really have made a very good coaster. I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of these... https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ Regards, Peter Coghlan. Adam
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 13:38:32 -0700, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: > > I wish I'd kept some. I had some AOL CDs from slightly later that made > decent coasters for decades. Although I guess with the shutter, the floppy > wouldn't really have made a very good coaster. > I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of these... https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ Regards, Peter Coghlan. > > Adam >
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On 1/18/22 1:38 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: I wish I'd kept some. I had some AOL CDs from slightly later that made decent coasters for decades. Although I guess with the shutter, the floppy wouldn't really have made a very good coaster. Chuckle. When I think of "coasters" I think of CD-ROMs, particularly bad burns on CD-Rs. That being said, I do have some rubber coasters in the shape of 3½" floppy disks. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
AOL diskettes
> From: Grant Taylor > > I wince at the idea of running with QIC tape. But my experience is with > QIC-80 tapes of the '90s which were so unreliable as to be in the same > category as AOL floppy disks during the late '90s around the transition > to CD-ROMs. As in I would trust an AOL floppy disk to better hold my > data for a week than I would a QIC-80 tape to hold data for a month, > much less a year. ...and I didn't even trust an AOL floppy to go from > computer to computer for 5 minutes. -- Talk about a race to the bottom > for quality. I wish I'd kept some. I had some AOL CDs from slightly later that made decent coasters for decades. Although I guess with the shutter, the floppy wouldn't really have made a very good coaster. Adam
