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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 2 points 4 months ago

So, after a little more digging, I found that what is displayed by finger can be changed with SDF's maint command.

I may or may not have done this. I can't remember for certain. It's also possible that the default settings were different 10 years ago.

Have you tried emailing membership@sdf.org?

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@murph It was argued that you need to have a ~/.plan file, but I do not have one.

I do not recall having had to do anything to enable it.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 2 points 5 months ago

@siipale For current accounts, yes. I can't answer definitively for legacy ones. I've only been on SDF a couple years now.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@siipale You could try reaching out to membership@sdf.org.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 1 points 5 months ago

This is not true. I do not have a ~/.plan file. I just double checked in case I set one up and forgot about it.

finger still pulls some basic information without one.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

@murph It does. Try finger jlamothe@sdf.org (that's me).

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You can run the command finger username@sdf.org to see if an account with that name exists.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 3 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, I can't see any practical use outside of educational, but for that purpose, it's a fantastic resource.

 

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…

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 1 points 6 months ago

@secret300 bboard and com both take some getting used to, but they're both pretty great once you do.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 2 points 7 months ago

@shellsharks I'm working on ironing out some bugs in the code of my virtual sushi bar in #LambdaMOO.

[–] me@social.jlamothe.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard good things about Hetzner, though I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that SDF offers VPS services.

 

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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