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I had to buy some floppies to get this to work.

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[โ€“] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it doesn't have copilot, it is useless

[โ€“] errer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Microsoft Bob!

This badboy's got 133MHz of raw power (no MMX) and a whopping 800x600 TFT with 16k colors! ๐ŸŒˆ

It's been quite a while since I last ran Netscape Navigator. Brings back memories.

[โ€“] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Love it! Don't forget to grab Catz/Dogz from the Internet Archive and get yourself a feline/canine companion! <3

Oooh those are cute! ๐Ÿ˜ They were not a thing here in Germany, so I never heard of those before.

[โ€“] j_elgato@leminal.space 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does the 56k connection squeal qualify as a fetish by this point?

Or is that just a weaponized nostalgia reflex thing?

I managed to find an ethernet PC Card with DOS drivers. 56k would be too painful, even for a retro PC enthusiast like me. :D

[โ€“] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[โ€“] 0x0f@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man I must have suppressed the fact that those laptops had a fucking floppy reader.ย 

Some models even had a CD drive! But the machine cannot boot from it. ๐Ÿซ You were supposed to attach a floppy drive with a special cable (which I don't have). It's a bit frustrating. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How's frogfind? The last few times I've tried on various old systems the search hasn't found anything.

Doesn't work for me either at the moment, I think archive.org has blocked them because the site generated too much traffic.