They really should bring vibrant semi-transparent colours back to tech.

‘Cool colours’ floppy disks and the variants of the Nintendo 64 and iMac G3 were so damn cool.

Seriously considering buying a new old stock pack of those floppy disks. I had one of the larger packs of them when I was a kiddo, and I’ve since lost pretty much all of my (now) retro PC gear, aside from the first DVD drive I owned.

That AOpen IDE DVD Drive has one of the loudest spindles I’ve encountered lmao

@maddy
The last pack of floppy disks I bought, the clerk found it at the back of a bottom shelf and literally blew a layer of dust off it, like some ancient tome in a haunted library.

Telling him I needed it to install Macintosh System 7 didn't help.

@silvermoon82 Heheheh

@maddy Yes, but also beige please! I want an IBM 5150 case with USB-C ports and a smartcard reader on the front :D

@seabass Ugh, true! It’s been so long without much of any beige that I’m missing it!

@maddy I'd offer you my trusty Pentium 4 box but we're kind of distant from one another :/

@seabass Heheheh, don’t worry about it!

I’ve actually got a beige Pentium III tower I need to do something with yet.

Heck, I still need to find a drive I can use with it. I don’t have any IDE HDD storage anymore!

@maddy Nice! Watch out for erroneously floating points though ;)

IDE HDD is a term to strike fear into the heart of a sysadmin in a hurry... I've got to admit that I'm happy SATA exists these days!

@maddy @seabass Did you know that you can get PATA SSDs? (but unless it's in a laptop it'd probably be cheaper to use an adapter)

There's an Am386SX in my grandma's house that my dad bought for her and she has never used, I have no idea if it still works.

@noisytoot @seabass Are you referring to DOMs (Disk on modules)? I was thinking I’d get a decent adaptor from StarTech (tended to be the most reliable when testing adaptors with an Xbox game console) and pop in a decent SATA SSD. At the very least, something that’s not QLC flash.

@noisytoot @seabass Bet that old Am386SX would be pretty cool to play around with if it’s working!

@maddy @seabass No, I'm referring to this kind of thing: https://amazon.com/dp/B00AQT2LRK

It's intended for laptops where there may not be room for an adapter

@maddy @seabass It would be, although even NetBSD requires at least a 486 now (I'm not sure what the last version to run on a 386 is)

@noisytoot @seabass Oh, neat! I wasn’t aware of these! Much too rich for my blood, but will keep it in mind, thanks!