Notices by vxo (vxo@digipres.club)

@foone I'm pretty sure a track 0 switch was just always part of the PC floppy disk specs.

I wonder if the PC world ever supported hard-sectored disks in any way. Those had a punched index mark for each sector angle. I would kinda love to know why some systems required and used this!

@foone I remember on some flavor of Sony betacam sx decks there is a menu option abbreviated to that
@q

@foone I have also run into mysteriously open 0-ohm resistors before, same situation. My vague theory on it is that there was a welding failure between the foil and the end metallization.

floppy disk sounds for your pleasure:

nnnnnnnnnnbrrrrrrrrrknnnnnnnnn
bzzzzzzzzzzznk tnk tnk tnk tnk tnk tnk tnk tnk tnk bzzzzzzzznk

@foone I miss my Thinkpad T510. It had lots of ports. Thing even had eSATA and Firewire. It was such a good friend

@foone I like big 'books and i cannot lie

@foone yeah that makes sense

dang what would you call me if I would pretty much be a trans girl if I identified with a gender at all but I don't

I'm still going with enby

@foone they look like a resistor via math!

@foone this sounds like a good point at which to bring the CA Attorney General office into the situation!

@foone well dang!!!!!

@foone that just makes me think of one of those scenes where the space battleship or whatever goes into lockdown and you just see and hear many giant steel doors slamming in a slow dramatic sequence

@foone that's what I think too and that's..... pretty hecking weird. Reminds me of how I once had something spit text across the Windows 95 shutdown screen.

@foone that would be gloriously sinister

Well there's a first, saw a car with a Locktober bumper sticker

@foone ohhhh heck it is Cursed RGBHV and I love it

@foone oh HECK is that like.... RGBHV in there?

@foone I've had the same experience with Tadiran and Saft lithium batteries.

@foone I read this out of context and cracked up laughing and I'm so glad no one in the office with me asked my why I did
@puppygirlhornypost2

@foone I wonder just how many actually support PCL3 and you can just use that. For the longest time it was almost universal, I mean--- the go-to for a universal printer driver was just to tell your OS/application it's a Laserjet 4 in PCL personality

A bunch of inkjets also did ESC/P2

Really this kinda just all continued right up until Canon figured out they could save two cents per printer by making the Windows GDI output a raster image and clock it out the parallel port