#apple2

My friend has a GreaseWeazle and a 5.25" floppy drive. This arrangement lets you read raw data off 5.25" floppies from pretty much any platform.

I brought over my Apple II floppies from my childhood. I had already imaged them all in the late 90s, but I got curious if they still read.

They still read. Even the oldest one, dated December 1983 that my dad gave me as my first floppy disk when I was six years old.

The few that had bad blocks were ones I remember having bad blocks when I tried back in 1999. So I don't think they even degraded much since then.

The media longevity of the original Shugart SA400 floppy disk system is absolutely astounding. It completely blows my mind. FOURTY YEARS LATER and the disk still reads with zero errors like it was written yesterday.

The First Disk. Probably the first computer media I ever held in my hands in my entire life.

The Apple II was a Christmas surprise in 1983. So dad had created this floppy for me a week in advance.

Morning Drawing -

Touring

6” x 9”

Ink on paper

http://www.aaronkratenart.com/Touring_Drawing.html

3. how did you choose your island name?

this is going to sound SO weird but i needed to find fruit farm websites to use as a reference and inspiration for my world building in another game community. frog hollow farms came up and it’s got the cutest name (and logo!) and when i got nh in april i knew that’s what i’d go with. i liked the way it looked as one word (plus the space would go over the character limit anyway), so that’s how froghollow came to be c:

33. do you prefer fishing or catching bugs?

bugs alllll the way. at least with bugs you already know with you’re going to catch; i dont like going out of my way to catch a huge fish that’s actually a sea bass.

thanks for asking!! cute icon btw <3