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Nastyman
Jul 11, 2007

There they sit
at the foot of the mountain
Taking hits
of the sacred smoke
Fire rips at their lungs
Holy mountain take us away
I've got your 8" floppy right here :grin:

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Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug

Action-Bastard posted:

Pretty sure porn at the time was all analog.

No they did the other holes too.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

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!

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
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.

I Brake For MILFs
Jan 9, 2007

:syoon:


A mystery dick from the past would have been better. Even if it wasn't evil.

An evil mystery dick.

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
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.

Dignity Van Houten
Jul 28, 2006

abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P


If the contents of the disk aren't read by end of week, ban OP

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
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)

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

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.

He killed himself in front of the first Redbox (this parts a joke)

advantages of Laserdisc format:
- you can see Jabba's Twilek dancer's tiddy in a freeze-frame

disadvantages:
- everything else

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

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

JK Fresco
Jul 5, 2019

Mooey Cow posted:

No they did the other holes too.

Hairy Right Hook
Sep 9, 2001

Hee to the ho
It's got the MICHAELANGELO VIRUS op watch out and maybe wear gloves

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Empty Sandwich posted:

advantages of Laserdisc format:
- you can see Jabba's Twilek dancer's tiddy in a freeze-frame

disadvantages:
- everything else

The famous maclunky

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
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.

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


My floppy aint' floppy anymore thinking about all those actuarial tables hurry up and read the disk I don't have all day here

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
In my experience any floppy disc turns out to be disk three of six of Might and Magic II.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

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

Cerebral Mayhem
Jul 18, 2000

Very useful on the planet Delphon, where they communicate with their eyebrows
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.

Dont Touch ME
Apr 1, 2018

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!

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

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.

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.

It's a 5.25" disk. OP didn't measure

Clockwork Sputnik
Nov 6, 2004

24 Hour Party Monster

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.

Hopefully you can find a reader and find the true evil within, though.

SONS OF PLUTARCHY

Y. C.

NEWPORT HARBOR

Scornful Sexbot
Sep 24, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

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.

HELLOMYNAMEIS___
Dec 30, 2007

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.

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!
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?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
whatever you do op please please PLEASE do not copy that floppy

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

I'm 5.25" floppy but 8" hard.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



wa27 posted:

I'm 5.25" floppy but 8" hard.

I upgraded to solid state last year :smug:

Clockwork Sputnik
Nov 6, 2004

24 Hour Party Monster

Captain Hygiene posted:

I upgraded to solid state last year :smug:

Sorry about your bit rot

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
how come when they moved to the smaller floppys they still called them floppys instead of stiffys? loving inquiring minds need the answer

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


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

klafbang
Nov 18, 2009
Clapping Larry

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.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Did you measure 8" from the balls or from the gut op? The results may surprise you!

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

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?

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

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.

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

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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Cerebral Mayhem
Jul 18, 2000

Very useful on the planet Delphon, where they communicate with their eyebrows
The computer was the only wang in the entire school (it was an all girls school)

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