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  • Re: DCTelnet v1.9 release

    From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Mortar M. on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 20:15:00
    On Mon Aug 17 09:38:00 2026, Mortar M. wrote to Jami <=-

    I like floppies. There's something about the physicallity that I find appealing, which is odd since I prefer ebooks to physical ones. I think it's
    because they reminded me of the "disks" that were used on STTOS. I even bought
    a three-pack of 3.5" disks months before I got my Amiga 1000, just so I could
    be ready.
    Floppies made me sad, the bbs backups i made in the 90s were ruined so easily when my floppy drive failed to read them back in the day.



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  • From Jami@21:2/150 to Matthew Munson on Friday, August 21, 2026 05:14:38
    Floppies made me sad, the bbs backups i made in the 90s were ruined so easily when my floppy drive failed to read them back in the day.

    Floppy disks left me with too many traumas over the year!P

    Way too many failures and too many disappointments coming home with the latest hits, only to find them full of CRC errors.

    I even had school and personal projects ruined because the disks ended up corrupted.
    After a while, you develop a natural distrust toward those little magnetic troublemakers! :-)

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Jami on Friday, August 21, 2026 08:54:21
    Re: Re: DCTelnet v1.9 release
    By: Jami to Matthew Munson on Fri Aug 21 2026 05:14 am

    Floppy disks left me with too many traumas over the year!P

    Way too many failures and too many disappointments coming home with the latest hits, only to find them full of CRC errors.

    I even had school and personal projects ruined because the disks ended up corrupted.
    After a while, you develop a natural distrust toward those little magnetic troublemakers! :-)

    I suppose I didn't use the same floppy disks long enough to notice corruption.. I could see it happening though.

    Also, around 1993ish, I remember coming across a floppy disk format utility for DOS called FDFormat, which could format floppy disks to slightly higher capacity (I think I read that it used fewer data checking areas or something in order to make more space). I thought that was cool until I soon noticed the data on disks formatted with that tool became corrupted fairly soon (within a couple weeks, I think), so I stopped using that tool.

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