Direct YT video link: https://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8
You can make audio cassette ribbon with sticky tape and rust sprinkled on it. Its not good but it does work
I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops
Submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
It didn’t work though. He wasn’t able to actually store any useful data on it.
667@lemmy.radio 1 week ago
There at the end he revealed the point of the exercise; it wasn’t to have a functioning disk, but to push one’s individual skill boundaries and learn new ways to solve problems. If the disk worked at the end then it would be a double benefit, but that wasn’t the point.
It’s a lot like learning to fly or sail a boat. Are there more economical means of travel? Absolutely. But in doing these things we gain new tools to solve adjacent problems.
Do I have a need to finely and evenly spread a magnetic slurry? Nope. But the wire-wrapped rod may very well help me out in the future!