The Floppy That Time Forgot: Mitsumi’s 2.8-Inch Quick Disk
Something you don’t see every day.
In the early 1980s, there was a war between floppy disk formats — and Sony’s 3.5-inch disks came out on top.
This one here is one of the many losers: the 2.8-inch Quick Disk format by Mitsumi. Each side could hold 64KB, and you had to flip it over like the old 5¼-inch floppies. It used a spiral track, so there was no random access — all data was written in one long winding track, like on an audio cassette.
Nintendo took inspiration from this format to create its own proprietary disk for the Famicom Disk System.
This drive and these disks are not just part of my collection — they were one of the very first things I bought back in the ’90s for my childhood MSX computer, when I was still in high school and still had my Amiga 1200.
More info about this drive format
Can we give the death penalty to people who use @ everyone or @ follower on Discord and Facebook? 💀
You open the ping thinking it’s important — just to find out it’s another useless promo from an overexcited admin with a megaphone 😤
Many songs from the eighties have aged poorly, but not “State of the Nation”.
An anti-militarist song by the American band Industry, it’s still as beautiful as it was when first released back in 1983.
90€ (or about $97 at the current exchange rate) is a hell of a lot of money just for the pleasure of playing Mario Kart…
Average ping differences, expressed in milliseconds, for connecting to my micro.blog site from Venice, Italy. Ping to Broggie: 151ms. Ping to Topeka (Germany): 36ms. That’s about four times lower latency. Whoa! 🤯
Tenebra 2
Ma quant’è figo Tenebra e quant’è figo il suo seguito, Tenebra 2. Un puzzle game di h4plo mascherato da dungeon crawler, uscito per praticamente qualsiasi console ed home computer a 8-bit e 16-bit.
Le poste in Via Torino, a Venezia, sono situate in questo palazzo. A riguardo dei loro finestroni, non so se siano stati loro a prendere ispirazione da Nintendo e GameFreak o viceversa 😅
An appeal to theme authors for micro.blog
Dear micro.blog theme authors, I kindly ask you:
Please avoid using {{ .Date.Format "Jan 2, 2006" }} for dates
Instead, use the better format {{ time.Format "Jan 2, 2006" .Date }} that supports international date translations.
This will allow non-English speakers to set defaultContentLanguage and see dates in their own language.