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TheMajorTechie


Oh, look at me... you've got me tearing up again. ◈ Forget about coffee buy me a cup noodle.

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  • 1 week
    Haha.

    *looks at bank account*
    *looks at planned personal projects*
    *looks at bank account again*
    *looks at how I accidentally bought four collectible coins from a vending machine for $15 at the Kennedy space center during last week's robotics conlmpetition instead of one and cannot return them because it's a vending machine*

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  • 5 weeks
    shhhhhhhhhhhh just breaking the site again don't mind me

    very, very, very experimental fic continues its slow progress as the deadline for bicyclette's sci-fi contest draws near. these chapters are about on-par with what if in terms of length, but oh boy have they been an interesting experience to write.

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  • 5 weeks
    hey hey btw i've got a (couple of) public minecraft server(s)!

    yeah so anyway here is my webbed site lol. there's an MC Classic server for building whatever, and an MC Beta 1.7.3 server for playing survival. I might eventually also put up a modern vanilla server as well, though given how I'm hosting a bunch of servers already for friends and a couple of discord servers, idk if the little slab of a PC I'm using to host 'em all would be able to manage lol.

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  • 6 weeks
    summer break is almost here :V

    basically got one week left lol. got an experimental fic in the works that's a sort-of direct sequel picking off right where Splintershard ended. no prior reading is necessary.

    MAN it's been a while since I've toyed with writing styles.

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  • 8 weeks
    mojang says that the latest minecraft snapshot needs a 64-bit OS to run.

    i said "nuh uh".

    (and then i suffered.)

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Nov
18th
2018

I've confirmed that the 5.25" floppy drive I have is dead. · 7:13pm Nov 18th, 2018

The main issue seems to be that the motor is no longer strong enough to spin the disk, and as a result, the drive head cannot read any data beyond what is directly below it. I can get it to spin up if I press gently on it, but it results in a general failure being thrown in both FreeDOS and MS-DOS, so I have a feeling that there's more than just the drive motors having an issue.

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Comments ( 5 )

Usually these drives have rubber belts that have gone bad from age, which can look like a bad motor until you open it up for inspection.

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The motor itself is good, and after disassembling the drive to see what was wrong, I found no belts.

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It's not every day you find yourself needing to get something off a 5.25" floppy. I wonder if my Commodore 1541 could do the job, if you made some kind of a serial converter.

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'Dunno. I'm personally trying to archive some software I found at the thrift store. I already searched several archive databases and the particular version I have had never been archived.

Plus, it'd be useful in the long run considering how I often work with old PCs.

If I remember correctly commodore drives encode data differently than pc compatible drives, so a simple serial converter wouldn't work.

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