@colinstu i really enjoyed that clip

@colinstu Ooooooooh, I love this. ;ω;

@colinstu We need to get a grant funded for the @mediaarchaeologylab to recreate this with other powered eject computers.

@colinstu That needs the Blue Danube as a soundtrack. #2001

@colinstu Scott Manley has a really nice video about the space shuttle’s early email exploits. There’s some really fun, “What if we just piped modem noises over the radio?” moments. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBurvPxNRI

@colinstu It feels like there’s aerodynamics going on (I assume the space has air in it)?

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I miss Mac floppy drives.
Especially the pre-1993ish ones before they cheaper out and introduced the "manual inject" ones that required you to shove the floppy all the way into the drive like the PC versions.

Having the floppy just handed to you was such a cool feeling.

@colinstu 💾 wheeee! 😂

@colinstu @xoagray I’d forgotten about that video. Thanks !

@colinstu That is so cool

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Early macs had the best floppy drives. Motorized on both eject and "inject."

Later Mac floppies (after 1992 or so) only had motorized eject. You could tell because there was a cut-out to allow you to force the disk deeper into the mechanism for it to catch the disk.

I don't think the insertion was actually motorized, though, I think it just had some way of grabbing the disks easier. Not sure how exactly that worked.

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