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Emily Velasco
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Found a very bright marker light in the e-waste at work. It might make a good bicycle tail light

Emily Velasco
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This would be such a stupidly bright tail light

Emily Velasco
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It has a blinking mode that's very attention getting but I think that it is too infrequent to be good for a bicycle

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Chris White
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@MLE_online haha that’s great! I would’ve bought that with big ambitions in the 90s then forgotten about it.

Emily Velasco
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@stoneymonster I didnt realize people were still using the big floppies in the 1990s

Jakob Stoklund
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@MLE_online @stoneymonster even 1988 seems a bit late for a 5¼“ floppy

botvolution
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@MLE_online @stoneymonster
In the early 1990s I knew of several manufacturing companies who still ran their production & material control systems on 8 bit machines with a 5mb (sic) hard disk and 8 inch floppy drives.
They were about the size of a big filing cabinet.

smellsofbikes
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@botvolution @MLE_online @stoneymonster we have a semiconductor parameter analyzer in near daily usage that boots off a 5 1/4". (We leave it running as much as possible to extend its life)

JoAnne (Stormgren)
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@MLE_online I do love me a good signalling light.

Rachel Rawlings
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@Stormgren @MLE_online Dangit, I want a workplace like yours, or just to have a good source of salvage fun nearby.

tom jennings
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@MLE_online

stupid-bright may be just bright enough!

Ángela Stella Matutina
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@MLE_online

Maybe just good enough with a diffuser?

James Akers
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@MLE_online perhaps it could be used in conjunction with other blinkers? Its almost like a heartbeat blinker

J. Steven York RESISTS
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@MLE_online
I was watching this video and I accidently did SOMETHING, and it popped over and started playing in the far right column (web interface, desktop). There was an obvious labeled button to move it back, but I didn't know it could do it, I'm not sure why I'd want it to do that (can I keep scrolling while watching it?), and now, I can't figure out how to do it again. MASTODON STILL HAS MYSTERIES! (BTW, highly approve of your efforts to reuse the e-waste recycle.)

turmoni
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@MLE_online my rear light [www.exposurelights.com] blinks in a similar pattern, but never fully turns off, instead going from dimmer to brighter. You could possibly emulate this by having a permanently illuminated red LED alongside it?

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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋
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Wow. Wonder if it still works.

NoIQ
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My first PC install was some off-brand os that included a fortran compiler and I was an early adopter of Linux for the same reason.

mc_bo
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@MLE_online double density

Ian
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@MLE_online Well, hey it even supports IBM FORTRAN/2 which means even the OS/2 users are covered. 😁

root42
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@MLE_online most important: is the disk still there?
edit: didn’t see the last pic

Emily Velasco
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@root42 it's right there in the photos

root42
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@MLE_online yup, hence the edit. I was on mobile and didn’t see the last pic. Hope it still works!

Rue Mohr
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@MLE_online I somehow suspect all the content of the disc is typed out in the book, but that the disc has a 2 level folder structure that makes things hard to find.

Chris White
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@RueNahcMohr @MLE_online That’s a Springer book too so it probably cost $200 in 1990.

Xavier Dury
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@MLE_online if you still have the means to read this floppy, could you upload its content to archive.org?

Emily Velasco
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@kalgon I do not have the means to read that floppy, unfortunately. I have a floppy drive for the diskette floppies, but not this kind

szakib
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@MLE_online Is the floppy readable? (Do you have a drive?)

Emily Velasco
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@szakib i don't have a drive, so i have no idea