Obsolete hardware running obsolete software documenting obsolete media
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The Floppy Museum is very, very far from the only place on the Internet devoted to the wonders of these obsolete, flexible, wonky and (by some standards) primitive storage devices. A great number of people have collected and kindly chosen to share an even greater amount of information.
Below is small and occasionally-curated list of sites I have stumbled upon or that have been suggested to me. Please give them a visit - and feel free to let me know if you have suggestions or corrections, or if you think your site should also be on this list!
(There are some shameless self-plugs at the bottom, too. You've been warned.)
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Museum of Obsolete Media
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Jason Curtis |
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The Museum of Obsolete Media documents all kinds of storage mediums: audio, video and data. Its Floppy Disk section is original inspiration and main source of material for this site. Thank you for allowing me to do this, Jason!
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| 2025-11-02 |
RetroCMP.de
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Thomas Brase |
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Loads of information about old hardware, with a very generous section on floppy disk formats and controllers. Particularly interesting (to me): the documenting of early 8-inch and 5 1/4-inch formats.
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| 2025-11-02 |
floppy.cafe
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Josh Cole |
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As the site says: "Bit Banging a 3.5"(sic) Floppy Drive". Detailed documentation of 90mm (3.5") floppy drive signalling and disk track layout. I finally understand more about how 2M and other disk formats manage to squeeze so much more space out of a floppy - and why they seem to be more fragile..
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Home Computer Museum
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Bart van den Akker et.al |
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A fantastic real-world, interactive computer history museum in the beautiful town of Helmond, NL. Not only do they have an incredible collection of working computers; their social mission hits home in all the right ways.
Sitting down on a period-correct chair at a period-correct desk placed in front of a period-correct wallpaper - and editing LANDER.BAS on a real Altair 8800 - should be enough to give anyone goosebumps.
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Shameless self-plugs
This is a collection of links to various other projects of mine.
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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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FreeBSD, AMD EPYC |
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My main presence on the Fediverse. Mostly posting stuff about retrocomputing, privacy, breaking up the monocultures, and general rants.
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| 2025-11-02 |
weirdr.net/snac/
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NetBSD, Pentium Pro* |
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One of several alternative "personas" I operate on the Fediverse. No particular purpose other than showing what such an old machine can do.
* Really a Pentium II OverDrive
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| 2025-11-02 |
larry.weirdr.net
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NetBSD, AMD 486, 160MHz |
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A homage to vintage gaming, in particular the Leisure Suit Larry games from Sierra On-Line. May contain traces of period-correct sexism.
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bbs.anduin.net
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OS/2 Warp 3, Cyrix Cx486DRx2-25/50 |
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My BBS! The link is for the website describing the hardware and software; connect by telnet to bbs.anduin.net on port 23. If you fail to pass the CAPTCHA, try a different Telnet client, or use a plain TCP connection.
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