Notices by AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social), page 29

@skubo Bulletin Boards (BBSes), and 300 baud modems. Slower than tape, but it was like mining for REAL gold.

@elstiko Off the BBS' files section, yeah. He's a 14 year old pirate rockstar .

It's 1984, your C64 is switched on, currently loading a brand new game called Impossible Mission off a floppy disk, your best friend is on his way to your house bringing MORE disks (he downloaded tons of stuff last night), an extra joystick, a movie-sized pack of Reese's Pieces and a 2-liter of root beer in his backpack. You don't know it yet, but this is as good as life gets.

@patricklang I doubt it was a thought of necessity, more a concept of perceived luxury. Just like electronic motors in your car to roll the window down vs using a hand crank. Or power steering.

I'm guessing the "manual labor" of pushing a button and your finger's force making the disk eject was considered "low tech" compared to electronic eject. In the 90s CD and DVD trays followed the same path. 🤷♂️

@Yoss1960
The disk drive was actually created by Sony. I misspoke when I said Apple chose the plastic.

@codepoet80 that is correct. It's a Sony drive.

@micheal My wallpaper appears to be a lightened version of this
https://addons.videolan.org/p/1729708/

@AlanGrassia Indeed. I just fixed a 2nd drive today. (One more to go!)

Now I see why he sells them in packs of 4...

@dansalvato I just fixed a second drive and the gear in question completely broke down as I was removing it.

This time around, I'd say the gear was definitely made from white chocolate. No doubt about it. ;)

@mos_8502 What's weird is all of the other gears are rock solid and totally fine as they are a different matieral.There's just the one crumbly one in there. One rumor I read suggested the crumbly gear either produced a softer sound, or smoother overall function. No idea, though.

@dansalvato LOL!! Totally

The fact the gear teeth fall into ancient grease you have to pick out makes you feel like you're digging it out of some horrific gooey brie, too. Hah!!

And here is the final result. Music to my ears :) https://youtu.be/09pticYdYJk

I taught myself how to do this repair. MORE HERE: https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2591

I discovered recently that the 800k and 1.44MB macintosh drives with electronic disk ejection shipped with a tiny little gear that fails over time due to a baffling design decision by Apple. The plastic they chose crumbles into pieces as it ages. Thankfully, there is a guy on Ebay who sells custom printed new ones.

@msdropbear42 THE TOWEL!
😂

My Apple Newton is cooler than your Apple Newton. ;)

#infocom #textgames #apple #newton #interactivefiction #douglasadams #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #hhgttg

I have to go to a dinner party but I’m doing well on level 8. Note to self upon my return…

#Amiga #Rogue

Some of my original 3D software for Amiga. I’m going to start with Sculpt3d of “The Juggler” fame and go from there. Note: that Fonts jewel case actually holds a floppy disk inside.

Cinema4D will go on my beefed up A3000.

#Amiga #commodore #3d #3dmodeling #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

The needs of the long outweigh the needs of the prosper.

#startrek #commodore #amiga #retrocomputing

@saxonian
I don’t eat mammals, which I know is a big help (esp. if 3/4 of us did the same, and frankly no meat at all). But I know I could do much more. I’d like to invest in solar panels once my kids are out of the house and my bills reduce.

But yeah. It’s all very daunting.