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[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

@TwoBeeSan @dosuser123456 Where does one even buy floppies any more?

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@ewo As far as I know, it is. That said, sometimes you need to poke membership a few times to get them to respond. It's an SDF tradition, I think.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe worth looking into. I wonder how much shipping to Canada would cost me.

 

Came across an old USB floppy drive. I plugged it into my machine and it shows up, but I can't tell it it's actually working or not. When plugged in, it sounds like it's continuously reading, so I kind of want to test it. Can you even buy floppy disks any more?

That said, if I don't have any disks, I guess the question of whether or not it works is moot anyways.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I found his videos by jumping down a 6502 rabbit hole.

 

So, this isn't exactly retrocomputing and it looks like it's from four years ago, but I just found it and thought that many here may find it interesting.

This guy built a simple 8-bit CPU out of essentially discrete logic circuits (from what I've see so far, nothing more complex than a 4-bit adder chip) and explained the entire process.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLow…

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by me@social.jlamothe.net to c/exmormon@lemmy.world
 

I was reminded this by another post that I just saw. Was told that it deserved its own top-level post.
youtu.be/4e0fRKHG7Hk

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by me@social.jlamothe.net to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
 

Because of the nature of the fediverse, posts that were made prior to my subscribing here haven't federated to my instance but I wanted to say hi. I'm really happy to see this comminity starting to migrate here. I was /u/jlamothe on #Reddit. #ExMormon #LDS

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