Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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Second Edition
Millennium Edition

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Nailed it!
Yay!

I may have underestimated the pre-stretch circumference. I found someone who sells Matsushita FDD belts, giving the circumference as 18 cm, & for about $12 all told. Not bad if it's right, & I'll find out in just a few days.

But if that's right, then the 25 year old belt stretched out another 5 cm in the drive. That's a fantastic amount, but since I pulled them out so easily that they almost fell out on their own, it's also plausible.

TMW you find a typo in a toot that got more boosts & faves than any tweet you ever made on birdsite.

Please insert the disk labeled

Windows XP Professional CD-ROM

into Drive A:

* Press ENTER when ready.

Imagine being so unscrupulous a marketeer that a complaint letter about you survives for nearly 4,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

*groggily drags self zombie-like into work*
"Time to make the 'puters..."

I just realized that Sauron made an Internet of Rings.

That sahara sand/minsk color combo looks pretty nice, tbh.

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?