Early 90's were more fun. I modified DOS command.com file to change the outputs ...

marak830 · 2025-10-27T08:18:46 1761553126

Haha that reminds me, Qbasic using the help file to figure out how to program. Taking apart a HD and getting my fingers pinched between the two bloody strong magnets.

Amazing what you learn when you have no other distraction xD

twostraws · 2025-10-27T11:59:53 1761566393

I agree that the early 90's were a lot of fun – I remember drilling holes in 3.5-inch floppy disks to increase their capacity, blissfully unaware that actual HD floppies had a different coating entirely…

skeeter2020 · 2025-10-27T16:01:27 1761580887

Two (of the many) mind-blowing discoveries of the 80's:

1. there was a disk notcher (the Nibbler?) that would DOUBLE the capacity of a 5 1/4 floppy!

2. you could just use a regular paper hole punch and a few select clips to do the same thing!

All my C64 floppies had faint parallel pencil lines across the top to line up the slots and what looked like mouse-nawed holes on one side.