one of my favourite things is how, like, you think about Asimov, and you might have this image of this old timey science fiction author completely removed from modern technology, right

anyway here he is selling radio shack computers

i played with flux-erasing a disk and then reading it back and for some reason it managed to not erase a couple of tracks on one side which makes for very educational material comparing a demagnetized track vs. a FAT12 MFM formatted one

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create aeronautics is out

we uh

we made a mistake making our boat in the water

found these (and a random screw) stuck to the tape on one of the flex cables... for the life of me they don't seem to have come from my iPod at all

it had been opened by a previous owner to replace the battery

this bodes well

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it was still playing music but wouldn't go into disk mode, now it's completely gone 😢

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i bought li-ion 1.5v AAA rechargeable batteries, and a universal charger to go with it

i wasn't expecting the size difference

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