Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

When will we have pills ready to turn me into a cute catgirl?

The third drive came in, & it has the same bad belt problem. My last hope for a local source was a belt from a bargain bin, but it's both too big (218 mm) & too thick.

I have 3 Matsushita EME-278TY floppy disk drives, & all 3 have stretched or broken belts. I've never even *seen* a belt-driven 3.5" drive before this month.

Would anyone happen to have 3 thin spindle belts about 214-216 mm in circumference, 1-2 mm wide, and less than 1 mm thick, you could part with?

@natalie@masto.ninja @troubleMoney Whether the parity is even or odd, it definitely has a hard requirement of one stop bit.

@troubleMoney The trouble is data reliability and the absence of speedy error correction mechanisms. You'd have to admit a 57.6 PB mass of data would not arrive at its destination with every 256 GB packet intact, let alone in the proper order. (Well, it would arrive there intact and in the proper order at the instant of arrival, but the buffer it's then immediately pressed into is not exactly compatible.)

@troubleMoney Lotus gave it 1-2-3 DMCA takedowns for the slash fight videos between it and Quattro Pro.

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz This is going to sound stupid, but what does `file` say the wine in your dot-steam folder is, & what are its permissions?

@Sir_Boops Someone basically asked: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/install-windows-10-from-floppy-drive/8ae9d380-5b89-41c0-8f95-8ced7e283d9b

Also:

@quephird@mastodon.social Hi, I just want to say that your display name is awesome. :3

I need to find a way to put a fairy-wand star & bow on the end of my repair kit's socketed screwdriver handle.