Re: Re: floppy disks are cool!
By: Spectre to paulie420 on Tue May 07 2024 06:04 am

Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....

Speaking of floppy drive sounds, I've enjoyed some of the Floppotron videos on YouTube (where someone has made a setup of floppy drives connected to a music sequencer which plays popular songs using floppy drives to make the sounds of the various parts of the song).

Nightfox

I've posted before about this, but I lived next door to a house
converted into a pub - our front porches were combined so I could walk
to the pub without stepping on a sidewalk.

They sold beer and wine, pipe tobacco and cigars, and had separate
rooms - a living room with comfy chairs and a fireplace, a room with
tables people could work at (this was near a university), a back room
and 2 porches. We had many gettogethers there.

That's pretty neat. Bet you made some good memories here.

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The two fairly regular locations here was, Zone 3, a laser tag arena, and Charlton's, a pool hall. When I say pool hall it was pretty large, 3 floors, karaoke, live band, and a floor of tables all fully licensed.

That's pretty sweat. We only had the bowling alley, otherwise we would just go to each other's homes.

It was also difficult for us to all meet up because some of our friends lived in the city just outside ours. Not that it was far, but when you're young with no drivers license, you were begging your parents to drive you. Even the city buses didn't take you between the city/towns..

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That's pretty sweat. We only had the bowling alley, otherwise we would just go to each other's homes.

It was also difficult for us to all meet up because some of our friends lived in the city just outside ours. Not that it was far, but when you're young with no drivers license, you were begging your parents to drive you. Even the city buses didn't take you between the city/towns..

We also had home meets.. Charltons was a regular Friday night for a while. Sounds like we probably had a wider age spread too, it was nothing for car
pool groups for those either to young, or just without a license. Ahh there's
a location I forgot too... Was a public park.. lol.. surprised to never got
the boot from there..

Spec


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Let's see... I still use floppies on my Apple IIe, C=64, C=128, Dolch
PAC 60 and a couple laptops; 286, Pentium and a ThinkPad.

I do utilize SDCard solutions for most of the above, and other HDD replacements like CFCard boards - but yea, using the actual media DOES
do it for me... :P

i use SSDs for the main C: drive on my computers but i also use CFcards for auxilary secondary drives like D: on my 286! :D

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....

sounds cool! <3

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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