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I've got your 8" floppy right here
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 11:25 |
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Action-Bastard posted:Pretty sure porn at the time was all analog. No they did the other holes too.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 11:32 |
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Action-Bastard posted:Pretty sure porn at the time was all analog. Maybe get some tits via fax but that's the limit. Look how stupid and ignorant you are. You utter fool!
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 11:54 |
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Your bigger problem, op, is that 8” floppies were generally not used in the home market. It’s likely a disk for IBM minicomputers or DEC VAX. This means you’ll need a super-weirdo collector of these things to read it. HYC is probably the owner, department, or company that this disk belongs to. My guess is the disk contains copies of text articles about the hijacking. These disks held very little information, anywhere from 80kb to about one megabyte. Anything more significant would have been stored on tape.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 11:57 |
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A mystery dick from the past would have been better. Even if it wasn't evil. An evil mystery dick.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 13:00 |
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Probably a useless fragment of a clue, but Y.C. of H.Y.C. could theoretically be Yacht Club. It could be from a set of case studies with a view to reducing risk, setting out protocol etc. Hopefully you can find a reader and find the true evil within, though.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 13:38 |
If the contents of the disk aren't read by end of week, ban OP
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 13:46 |
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Not to take away anything from "OPs terrorist adventure disc", but I wanted to tell everyone about a teacher in the 90s that would brag about his LASERDISC collection. He said he had a full library of "Hollywood classics" and insisted that LASERDISC was the future. He killed himself in front of the first Redbox (this parts a joke)
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 14:18 |
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Not to take away anything from "OPs terrorist adventure disc", but I wanted to tell everyone about a teacher in the 90s that would brag about his LASERDISC collection. He said he had a full library of "Hollywood classics" and insisted that LASERDISC was the future. advantages of Laserdisc format: - you can see Jabba's Twilek dancer's tiddy in a freeze-frame disadvantages: - everything else
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 14:29 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:I mean if the mountain dew bottle was labeled "SOLUTION TO ROANOKE MYSTERY" or something this might be a good slam it's somebody's homework hth
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 15:05 |
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Mooey Cow posted:No they did the other holes too.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 15:18 |
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It's got the MICHAELANGELO VIRUS op watch out and maybe wear gloves
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 15:49 |
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Empty Sandwich posted:advantages of Laserdisc format: The famous maclunky
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 15:54 |
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This is a weird anachronism. The Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1985, so unless this disk predicts the future, it is younger than that. But by 85, 8 inch floppies were outdated technology. Desktop microcomputers existed. The Apple 2 used 5.25 inch floppies, the Macintosh, introduced the previous year, used 3.5 inch floppies. IBM PCs of the day could take either or both. Commodore used 5.25, Tandy 3.5. The only people using an 8 inch floppy would have been someone who had very expensive computer at work that used these things. This fits in with the theory that it’s an insurance analysis done for a yacht club. Enjoy your actuarial tables, op. I hope yacht insurance premiums from 1985 are worth it.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 16:29 |
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My floppy aint' floppy anymore thinking about all those actuarial tables hurry up and read the disk I don't have all day here
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 16:35 |
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In my experience any floppy disc turns out to be disk three of six of Might and Magic II.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 16:38 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:I mean if the mountain dew bottle was labeled "SOLUTION TO ROANOKE MYSTERY" or something this might be a good slam I'm going to write cryptic messages on everything that I throw away now
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 16:38 |
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Home computers in the eighties used mainly 5 1/4" disks. 8" disks only showed up in business or academic settings. My high school had a Wang 220B computer that I learned BASIC on and had a dual 8" disk drive the size of a dishwasher. It could be a lot of boring financial data or someone's research paper.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 17:26 |
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:i found this cap for a bic pen, but the pen itself was nowhere to be found. this looks like a mystery for the goons!
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 17:53 |
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The Management posted:This is a weird anachronism. The Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1985, so unless this disk predicts the future, it is younger than that. But by 85, 8 inch floppies were outdated technology. Desktop microcomputers existed. The Apple 2 used 5.25 inch floppies, the Macintosh, introduced the previous year, used 3.5 inch floppies. IBM PCs of the day could take either or both. Commodore used 5.25, Tandy 3.5. It's a 5.25" disk. OP didn't measure
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 18:52 |
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Jeza posted:Probably a useless fragment of a clue, but Y.C. of H.Y.C. could theoretically be Yacht Club. It could be from a set of case studies with a view to reducing risk, setting out protocol etc. SONS OF PLUTARCHY Y. C. NEWPORT HARBOR
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 18:57 |
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935 posted:If the contents of the disk aren't read by end of week, ban OP Please no. Nefarious 2.0 posted:i found this cap for a bic pen, but the pen itself was nowhere to be found. this looks like a mystery for the goons! If you read the OP, you'd know this was a useless gift, not something I found. Charles posted:It's a 5.25" disk. OP didn't measure I did measure, it is 8". My sister sent me the link she used when she purchased it after I mentioned it was a terrorism. It was advertised as 8". Just like my dick. Sounds like this was for an obscure enterprise need, likely at some company using older or outdated hardware....which also would adequately describe the Federal Government, well known for still using COBOL code. Could HYC stand for something government related? Hillary Yakov Clinton?!?!?! I'd be happy to mail it to some goon if they happen to have the ability to try and read it, but unless someone from the university replies to my email I am probably not buying and configuring a drive for this, especially since it is likely degraded. Looks like we will have to handle this the old fashioned way.... internet sleuthing.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 19:45 |
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If you get in touch with Kasettilamerit/Cassette Lamers and send them the disk, they can probably tell you what's on it. They specialize in data archeology, so not only do they have the hardware to read it, they have the know-how for any recovery work that may be needed.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 20:01 |
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Perhaps you measured the floppy disk with your dick, but did you measure your dick with the floppy disk? How are we to know for sure that your dick is qualified to measure this disk hmmmm?
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 21:46 |
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whatever you do op please please PLEASE do not copy that floppy
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 21:51 |
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I'm 5.25" floppy but 8" hard.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 22:00 |
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wa27 posted:I'm 5.25" floppy but 8" hard. I upgraded to solid state last year
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 22:08 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:I upgraded to solid state last year Sorry about your bit rot
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 22:10 |
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how come when they moved to the smaller floppys they still called them floppys instead of stiffys? loving inquiring minds need the answer
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 22:35 |
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I always felt a twinge of annoyance whenever people called them "floppy diskettes" this is actually a thing I have heard in person from real people in the real world and it's what drove me to madness edit: you find out what's on that floppy disquette yet
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:02 |
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Nooner posted:how come when they moved to the smaller floppys they still called them floppys instead of stiffys? loving inquiring minds need the answer The disks themselves are bendy and soft if you take them out of their protection. A hard disk on the other hand is made out of metal. We used to use one to open beers.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:06 |
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Did you measure 8" from the balls or from the gut op? The results may surprise you!
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:30 |
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Cerebral Mayhem posted:8" disks only showed up in business or academic settings. My high school had a Wang 220B computer that I learned BASIC on and had a dual 8" disk drive the size of a dishwasher. You had an 8" Wang in high school?
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:33 |
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Cerebral Mayhem posted:Home computers in the eighties used mainly 5 1/4" disks. 8" disks only showed up in business or academic settings. My high school had a Wang 220B computer that I learned BASIC on and had a dual 8" disk drive the size of a dishwasher. It could be a lot of boring financial data or someone's research paper. Wanna know about the hard disks on that 'puter.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:36 |
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Telebite posted:You're going to need to at least know what computer system it's for... if it's from the mid 1980's it could one of many... Atari, Apple, Commodore, Spectrum, PC DOS, etc. Debian can read all of that and more. All you need is a 8 inch drive to do a bitwise copy on, the rest is easy.
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:39 |
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The computer was the only wang in the entire school (it was an all girls school)
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# ? Nov 18, 2019 23:58 |