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What’s the most important keyboard macro you know? Honestly, it’s probably Ctrl-S. But do you use that one often enough? Chances are, you do not. What you need is a …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Funny Keyboard
Back when CD-Rs were the thing, there were CD burner drives which would etch images in the unoccupied areas of a CD-R. These so-called LightScribe drives were a novelty of …read more Continue reading It’s Like LightScribe, But For Floppies!
[Folaefolc] was craving a new keyboard build a few weeks ago and got inspired by the humble 3.5″ floppy disk. So much so that he decided to make a split …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the TRON Keyboard
These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. …read more Continue reading Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk?
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86 architecture maintains a stronghold in the computing space that won’t …read more Continue reading A Modern PC With a Retro OS
[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here …read more Continue reading Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock
Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s …read more Continue reading Everything You Wanted to Know about Early Macintosh Floppies
You might have had a boombox back in the 1990s, but probably not like the Yamaha MDP-10. As [Nicole] explains, the odd little device played MIDI files from a floppy …read more Continue reading This MIDI BoomBox Takes Floppies
Apple as a company, has staked most of its future around being a “walled garden” where it controls everything from the hardware up through the user experience. In some ways …read more Continue reading Retro Hackintosh Made from Retro Parts
Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, …read more Continue reading Flux is Your Friend for Archiving Old Floppy Disks