Computing related collection of stuff

My Ogg player broke when I tried to install its software on my XP machine - it seems that the software tried to update the firmware (without asking me) and failed for some reason.

A friend of mine is here for a visit and for fun, we plugged the stick in his vista notebook - and it instantly found some "STMP3500" "player recovery device". After searching for STMP3500, I’ve found an XP driver (different player vendor, but it worked perfectly) which allowed the firmware updater to do its magic: and now it works :-)

I just plugged my CBM1541 drive into the parallel port of my PC (with the appropriate adapter cable, of course), and it just worked. Even the very good CBM computer emulator suite VICE knows how to directly access it!

Now I only have to copy those 200 floppies I have at home and can dive into some nostalgia again :-)