Check out my awesome new PiranhaPad. Now I have Four TurboFire Buttons, Perfect for Kill Moves in Hot Fighting Games. It says so. #retrocomputing

In addition to switching to perpendicular recording, ED disks use a barium ferrite oxide. Barium ferrite forms rounder, hexagonal crystals, more suitable for encoding perpendicular domains.

Here's a rare floppy disk now in my collection thanks to oldbytes.space/@shayman@cos... The FujiFilm LT-1 was a miniaturized double-density diskette storing 720K as 9 sectors per track, 80 tracks, 2 sides. #retrocomputing #floppydisk #vintagecomputing

Floppy drive sounds in the upcoming MartyPC 0.4.2! These are not the final recordings that will be used, but it gives you a decent impression. #retrocomputing #emulation

Just look at all the colors available! I even have a purple one.

Most people remember 5.25" floppy disks as being black, but you could get them in all sorts of different colors. #retrocomputing

Here, have a pixel art cassette tape. #pixelart

there was plenty of room to add an otter button

The term diskette goes all the way back to the 8" disks used with the IBM 3740. But it would be the IBM System/34 that would define the standard track layout and MFM encoding standard inherited by the PC.

I'll see your diskettes and raise you diskettes

definitely thinking of @anna-belle.bsky.social when I wrote the part at the bottom

which color did your monitor run out of most often?

I remember when I got my first SmellBlaster card. #retrocomputing

kids today don't know how easy they have it

this was the best Amiga game

thanks to TheRasteri for the reference

Now for 3.5". But what to write on the label??

Now with FloppoVision™

now with more Space Quest II save games.

A vector-art 5.25" floppy disk. #retrocomputing #vectorart

Did you know your monitor supports 3D? Here, let me turn that on for you.

Here's a close in zoom on the power LED.

I wanted a diagram to show the overscan area on the IBM 5153 monitor. I may have gone a bit overboard. Other than the emulator screenshot overlaid on the screen, this is an entirely vector-based image. #retrocomputing

Some mouses were worse than others.

A strange card that plugged into a slot in your socket. A slocket, if you will.

The Maynard Surprise was a V20 upgrade for your IBM PC.

Can you guess what this is for? The answer may surprise you. #retrocomputing

What hasn't been published anywhere is an actual explanation of why this happens. The logic is actually delightfully simple.

Writing documentation on the Motorola MC6845. Here's a section on the cursor, and various cursor weirdness you can accomplish. #retrocomputing

Here's an updated version. Pretty much every functional block identified. Might have some typos. No guarantee any of this is factually correct, I am not an expert in silicon reverse-engineering. I just did my best.