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Maartje

Q: is it open source?
A: mail me a floppy and I will get you the code

(Seriously this computer has no USB or anything so I will open source it once in better shape as getting the code out is a pain)

19 Nov 2022 at 22:49 | Open on blahaj.social
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vga256

@maartje lemme know where to mail the floppy to. i'll even pre-format it!

20 Nov 2022 at 2:55 | Open on dialup.cafe
Simon Springall (he/him). #FBPE

@maartje that's odd that you can access toots via Mastadon federation, but can't connect to GitHub or some mechanism to share the code? What protocols are required then to federate? I recall WfW had TCP/IP, just about.

20 Nov 2022 at 8:54 | Open on infosec.exchange
Maartje

@simonspringall I sure could FTP it out.... Git well i would need a Git client (optionally SSH) so that will be harder... the code fits on one diskette so that is probably the fastest way.
I have ways to get it out but for it to sync....

20 Nov 2022 at 8:57 | Open on blahaj.social
Anne

@maartje @simonspringall do you have a network card uou could hook into uour Lan? Wfw had decent networking

20 Nov 2022 at 16:49 | Open on octodon.social
Drezil :butterfly_trans:

@simonspringall @maartje theoretically yes - but you had to restart every time your IP changes πŸ˜…

21 Nov 2022 at 1:47 | Open on toot.kif.rocks
Charadon

@maartje
Jeez, why not join the future and use that perfectly good CD drive? I'm jealous since i can't afford a CD Drive, I'm stuck using my ZIP Drive...

20 Nov 2022 at 16:51 | Open on fosstodon.org
Maartje

@Charadon it cannot burn CDs… and no CD-RW read so not wasting plastic for evey bug fix

20 Nov 2022 at 17:52 | Open on blahaj.social
Charadon

@maartje And even if you had a cd burner and CD-RWs, this is before windows had the feature where it would treat CDs as removable storage, isn't it? (Also, I forgor the /sarcasm in my last post. oof)

20 Nov 2022 at 19:47 | Open on fosstodon.org
Maartje

@Charadon that was added in euh very late 98 or even XP

20 Nov 2022 at 21:18 | Open on blahaj.social
Charadon

@maartje This is going to sound dumb, but what if you could e-mail it to yourself? Though, at that point, a locally hosted FTP server would be the best way forward lol

20 Nov 2022 at 19:51 | Open on fosstodon.org
Maartje

@Charadon I just use diskettes at this point I love that medium

20 Nov 2022 at 21:39 | Open on blahaj.social
Β΅PD7220 Enthusiast
@maartje try using smb or ftp to get the files off, I do this with my pc98 and unix boxes a lot.
20 Nov 2022 at 17:35 | Open on outpoa.st
Michel Labrie 404

@maartje hello πŸ˜‚

You Can use a USB floppy drive if you want

21 Nov 2022 at 12:12 | Open on asocial.jacquesetmichel.fr
David Amador
davidak

@maartje i think in worst case, you could get the HDD out (IDE?) and attach it to a modern computer by an usb-adapter.

very cool project!

23 Nov 2022 at 19:03 | Open on chaos.social
Maartje

@davidak oooooh I forgot I installed a SD to IDE in that PC πŸ˜… anyhow solved it with diskettes

23 Nov 2022 at 19:11 | Open on blahaj.social
Dylan Van Assche

@maartje Reminds me of the days when you could get Linux distros on CDs by mail :)

23 Nov 2022 at 19:07 | Open on fosstodon.org
Paul Schoonhoven πŸ‰ πŸ‹

@maartje @MarkBeekhuis the best open source project of 2022!

(please keep only shipping as floppy.. πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜‰)

2 Jan 2023 at 11:50 | Open on mastodon.nl
Maartje

@vosje62 @MarkBeekhuis due to the 13% price increase at bpost it is on GitHub πŸ˜…

2 Jan 2023 at 11:51 | Open on blahaj.social
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