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#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #FloppyDisk #Apple #CAD

A spiral bound book open to the title page, which reads MiniCad 4.0 Addendum above some technical drawings of tubes. Two blue floppies with MiniCad labels are partially visible in the right of the frame.

A spiral bound book open to the title page that reads MiniCad 2D Reference Manual above an image of a spaceship in front of two planets. At the bottom is printed Diehl Graphsoft, Inc. PHYSICAL PLANT is stamped in all caps near the top of the page. The backs of two blue floppy disks are to the right. The labels have the Diehl street address and a box for a serial number. The top disk has 40-635 stamped in the serial number box and the lower disk has 4.05 written in pen in the box.

A spiral bound book open to the table of contents with the edges of two blue floppy disks visible at the right edge of the frame. MiniCad 3.0 is printed in the upper right corner of the page. The introductory sections cover both the Macintosh and MiniCad.

Free to a good home: I found some MiniCAD floppies and manuals. I'm pretty sure my USB floppy drive only reads high density floppies, so I haven't been able to confirm that the disks are still usable. 💾 :apple_inc:

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#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #FloppyDisk #Apple #CAD

Two spiral bound manuals with floorplans and elevation views of buildings on them and MiniCad Diehl Graphsoft, Inc printed on them. Just to the right are two blue floppy disks with MiniCad and a wireframe image on the labels.

A closeup of two blue floppy disks with the edge of a manual to the left and the edges of two gray floppy disks to the right. Both blue disks have labels printed in black that read MiniCad Computer Aided Design by Diehl Graphsoft Inc and a wireframe image. In the lower left corner of the label is Design Modeling Engineering Architecture. The word Dev and a numeral 6 are penciled on one of the gray disks to the right.

A closeup of two gray floppy disks with the edges of two blue disks with professional labels to the left and two more gray floppies to the right. The gray disks don't have paper labels. The top one has Minicad + 1.0 handwritten in blue cursive on it. The lower one has DEV. Work 6.0 handwritten in pencil.

A closeup of two gray 3.5" floppy disks with the edges of two other gray disks to the left. The upper disk has Minicad scrawled on it in cursive with a pencil and the only mark on the lower disk is a capital letter R in pencil next to the write protect slider.

Wer von euch hatte auch mindestens eine solche Diskette? 😎🤓 #throwback #win98 #floppydisk

3.5"-Diskette beschriftet mit "Win 98 SE Startdiskette"

A floppy disk that is actually just a whole bunch of SD (or microSD) cards wired together inside a plastic shell to make it identical to an actual floppy disk from the outside, which gets inserted into a FDD that is actually a specially shaped USB (or other protocol, depending on what enables the fastest speeds for the least complexity) port designed to read/write data from/to the floppySD.

#FloppyDisk #HardwareGore #SDCard #StupidIdeas

EDIT: It has found a home!
Sorry for the bad photo, but I have an original Tour of the Macintosh SE floppy, still in the plastic. Copyright 1988. The back of the label says "This product was developed using VideoWorks Interactive, a product of MacroMind Inc. :apple_inc:

#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #FloppyDisk #Apple

Speaking of well-known floppy disk brands, everyone knows Sony developed the 3.5" diskette, but do you know who developed the standard 2MB high density diskette in particular?

Here's a hint - they're still around, were never a huge tech company, and you can buy their products at nearly any convenience store or pharmacy.

#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk

Ah yes, the very well-known manufacturer, CH. Their products began appearing everywhere starting in the late 80s. Curiously, they only ever produced high density 3.5" floppy diskettes.

#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk

Who likes #y2k #2000s #nostalgia? I sure do! #2000snostalgia #nostalgic #2000skids #90skids #ibook #ibookg4 #windowsxp #gameboyadvance #gta3 #gtaiii #tamagotchi #tamagotchiconnection #dell #delldimension #crt #spacehey #myspace #motorolarazr #oldcomputer #floppydisk

A staged early-2000s computer desk setup lit with blue and magenta accent lighting. On the left, a white iBook G4 laptop displays SpaceHey, a modern MySpace-style social network, in a Firefox-based browser. In the center is a Dell Dimension 2200 tower connected to a Dell CRT monitor showing Windows XP with the game Zuma Deluxe running, using a Dell keyboard and mouse. Beige Harman/Kardon desktop speakers sit beside the monitor. Spread across the desk are period accessories including a Motorola Razr flip phone, a blue Tamagotchi Connection, a TI-84 graphing calculator resting on an open handwritten notepad, a black Game Boy Advance SP, and a blue 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled “Plop Bootloader.” A GTA III jewel case lies near the front edge of the desk, and a Maran Illustrated Windows XP: 101 Tips book stands behind the computers.

Another awesome contribution by @Telev - Microsoft Flight Simulator v2.10A for IBM-PC CGA. A gem from 1984... almost as old as I am! 😜

https://archive.org/details/microsoft-flight-simulator-1984-v-2.10-a-160-k-booter-cp-flux

#Microsoft #FlightSimulator #FlightSim #MSDOS #IBMPC #FloppyDisk #Greaseweazle #Diskette #RetroGaming #DOSGaming #PCGaming

Flight Simulator v2.1, The Meigs Field airport

Why would anyone throw away a perfectly good candy locker? #snacks #floppydisk

A "DURABLE" branded lockable 3.5 inch diskette case with a clear lid, yellowed plastic body and a key on the locking mechanism. Five "Knoppers" candybars are visible through the closed lid.

Epic Pinball for MS-DOS has always been on of my favourite pinball games! I've always known this as a collection of multiple tables. Only recently did I find out these tables were also sold separately. As separate products. Each table with their own unique cover art!

Here are a few of these disks: https://archive.org/details/epic-pinball-individual-table-releases-from-bn-companies

This is epic... pinball. Epic Pinball! 😃

#Pinball #RetroGaming #MSDOS #EpicPinball #FloppyDisk #Disketten #DOSGaming #PCGaming #DOSGames #PCGames #DOS #90s

Six different box arts of Epic Pinball tables.

Frisch aus den 90ern! Ein Satz deutschsprachiger 3,5 Zoll Disketten von Windows 3.0. Die Datenträger tragen das Produktionsdatum vom Juni 1990. Hochgeladen wurden vollständige Scans in 300dpi, saubere KryoFlux Streams, sowie IMG Sektorabbilder. Ich hab die Disketten gerade auch mal testweise installiert... funktioniert alles einwandfrei! Viel Spaß!

https://archive.org/details/mswin_30_de_35

#RetroComputing #Windows #Microsoft #IBMPC #MSDOS #FloppyDisk #Diskette #KryoFlux #90er #90s

Ein Screenshot aus Windows 3.0 in VGA-Auflösung.

Today, I could finally dump a German 3.5inch floppy disk set of Windows 3.0... not the updated v3.00a, but the original from 1990. I was 7 years old back when this was released. 😜

P.S. I just realized, disk 7 was missing from the photo, as it was still in the disk drive. But, of course, I will upload all of the disks to the Internet Archive a.s.a.p.

P.S.S. Here are complete scans and disk images:
https://archive.org/details/mswin_30_de_35

#RetroComputing #Windows #90er #90s #Oldschool #FloppyDisk #Disketten

Original floppy disks containing Windows 3.0.
German version on 720K diskettes.

A screenshot of Windows 3.0 running within 86Box.

Nostalgie am 3. Advent: Ein 3,5"-Diskettenlaufwerk, natürlich doppelseitig lesend/schreibend: Mitsumi D359M3D

11 Fotos unter https://w.wiki/Gd3Y © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

#raystechnikFotos #floppydisk #mitsumi #objectphotography

Frontansicht des Einbau-Diskettenlaufwerks

Blick auf die Unterseite. Links der bürstenlose Elektromotor zum Drehen der Disketten, unten rechte die Controller-Platine

Die beiden Schreib-/Leseköpfe, für das Foto liegen sie nebeneinander

Der büstenlose Elektromotor. 15 kleine Spulen sind radial zur Mitte hin angebracht

🎉NYFB (or shipped) BADGE PRE-ORDERS🎉
WHATS THIS!? A RARE online badge pre-order!

Badges may be picked up at NYFB or shipped for +$5 (ask for international!). Mac and Cheese badges can also opt out of shipping for a digital only file!
Open till the 17th or till filled!

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🧀 Mac and Cheese badge: $100
You can choose the pasta shapes!

💾 Floppy Disk: $150 / +$5 for holographic!
Multiple color disks available!

Telegram @ NightlineZ to inquire!

#nyfb #nyfb2026 #furry #furryart #commission #floppydisk #mastoArt #retro

4 mac and cheese box badges of various characters

Mac and cheese box badge of an anthro fennec.

Blue floppy disk badge of a petrichor themed fennec fox

compilation of various floppy disk badges

Cobra Retrieval System.
#floppy #floppydisk #retrocomputing

A 5.25" floppy disk. The label says "COBRA Retrieval System" and reveals that this is a CD-ROM version of the bible from 1988 in German. This is a driver disk for a CD on which the text was saved.
(Yes, I don't know how this found its way to me.)

Please Insert Disk

#insert #Cassette #tape #recorder #disk #disquette #diskette #FloppyDisk #FDD #computer #retrocomputer #data #inch #diskstorage #flexible #cartridge

Hier gibt's ab sofort die offiziellen, deutschsprachigen 3,5 Zoll Disketten von Windows 3.0. Konkret handelt es sich um die Version 3.00a aus dem Jahre 1991. Das System passte damals noch auf sieben 720K DD-Datenträger.

https://archive.org/details/mswin_300a_de/

Viel Spaß! 😃

#Windows #Microsoft #Diskette #FloppyDisk #RetroComputing #IBMPC #MSDOS

Sieben Disketten, 720K DD für Windows 3.0.

Screenshot aus Windows 3.0, Programm-Manager.

I just don't trust today's international politics and global tech giants anymore. That's why keeping regular, local backups of major retro collections from the Internet Archive is so important. You can never know what's going to happen next.

#Retro #Backup #FloppyDisk #RetroGaming #Internet #Bittorrent #FileSharing #MSDOS #DOSGaming #Preservation #InternetArchive

Making backups of Digitoxin's retro collections from the Internet Archive using qBittorrent.

Mal was für die ganz verrückten Retro-Sammler unter euch: Zum heutigen Nikolaus hab ich gleich zwei verschiedene deutschsprachige Fassungen von Excel-Disketten ins Internet-Archive geladen!

Excel 4.0 läuft tatsächlich noch unter dem ganz alten Windows 3.0/3.1, wohingegen Excel 7.0 schon das brandneue Windows 95 benötigt. Letzteres wird außerdem auch schon auf hochmodernen Datenträgern im 1.68MB DMF-Format ausgeliefert. Wahnsinn!

Excel 4.0: https://archive.org/details/ms-excel_40_de
Excel 7.0: https://archive.org/details/ms-excel_70_de

Viel Spaß und frohen zweiten Advent! 😉

#Excel #Office #Microsoft #RetroComputing #Retro #90er #90s #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Diskette