I’m just a nerd girl.

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Cake day: September 18th, 2023
  • Rose@slrpnk.nettoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Of courseEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I find it easier if the other person is a podcast listener.

    “You know how podcast ads usually say ‘listen to it in Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts?’ It’s a bit like that.”

    If not, I have to say something weak or complicated like “it’s a bit like email, dunno how to explain this if you have never thought about how email works, though”.

  • Rose@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.world•[crumbles into dust]
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    13 days ago

    In the beginning these were not available. Also I remember them costing the same as the C64 itself. As soon as I could afford one I got one obviously.

    I guess I was lucky. My parents got me my first Commodore 64 C second hand, and it included the floppy drive. Guess it was affordable that way.

    I just another item that could a generational riddle: the hole-punch that made your one-sided floppy two-sided.

    Ooh, I didn’t have one of those fancy pieces of gear! I lived in a small town. Used to see disk notchers at the book/stationery store, which had the reputation of being slightly pricy place but was the only store in town that had computer stuff at the time.

    Instead, I figured out a way to cleanly cut the notch using scissors. Two horizontal cuts, then two cross cuts, then carefully cut out the remainder.

  • Rose@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.world•[crumbles into dust]
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    13 days ago

    The tape drive has a hole on the top for adjusting the azimuth, but one of my friends basically just removed the top cover entirely for easier access to the screw. I did that too for some particularly tricky tapes.

    Another of my friends had basically an unearthly knack of adjusting this stuff. Dude would just walk up to the tape drive, masterfully tweak the screw for a second, and it’d work. Which makes no sense.

    This was all a kind of mysterious part of the Commodore 64 culture to me. Because I had a floppy drive and that’s what I obviously preferred to use.