Make It Rain (floppy disks)
personal
- yard work 2
- done: spray to kill broadleaf, spray to prevent ants, mow
- pending: mulch, flowers, cutting down extra trees and shrubs
- submitted my GA Tech late last week just have to finish up a few follow up steps
projects
basics - getting back to basics by revisiting my earliest QBASIC code
- initial step: recovering files from floppy disks
- much to my suprise I actually stilll own a working floppy disk drive
- see notes about
dusty below
- next: may port my old code, find existing tools, or write my own transpiler to JavaScript
reassembly - revisiting my original ASM code
- initial step: same as above: recovering files from floppy disks
- next: same as above: may port my old code, find existing tools, or write my own transpiler to JavaScript
dusty - my tried and true, trusty but dusty, Linux web server
- dug it out of the closet
- Toshiba 2515CDS Laptop that I repaired from multiple broken models
- Slackware Linux v11
- Intel Pentium 266MHz w/ MMX
- 92MB RAM
- 1 3.2GB hard drive
- 1 working CDROM drive
- 1 working 3.5” floppy disk drive
doswin - a new VirtualBox image that I created for DOS and Windows 3.11 projects
- VirtualBox VM
- Software
- DOS 6.22
- Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
- TCP
- thoughts:
- omfg wow (both good and bad, usually both)
- doskey aliases make dos hurt less
- no tab completion