You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
On 2019-10-01, david@ironicsans.com wrote:
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
SHAREWARE GAMES crossed out and replaced by TERM PAPER crossed out and replaced by SHAREWARE GAMES
Backup 14 of 83
Tue Oct 01 15:00:04 EDT 2019 Drew Bell drew@droob.org:
On 2019-10-01, david@ironicsans.com wrote:
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
SHAREWARE GAMES crossed out and replaced by TERM PAPER crossed out and replaced by SHAREWARE GAMES
-- Drew
Make sure that at least half of the pens you use are dried out and don’t mark the label correctly.
On Oct 1, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Drew Bell drew@droob.org wrote:
On 2019-10-01, david@ironicsans.com mailto:david@ironicsans.com wrote:
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
SHAREWARE GAMES crossed out and replaced by TERM PAPER crossed out and replaced by SHAREWARE GAMES
-- Drew
Castle of the Winds part 1 Castle of the Winds part 2 File Backup 9/1999 PERSONAL STUFF DO NOT READ THIS MEANS YOU, TIM
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM Thomas Ingham tingham@mac.com wrote:
Make sure that at least half of the pens you use are dried out and don’t mark the label correctly.
On Oct 1, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Drew Bell drew@droob.org wrote:
On 2019-10-01, david@ironicsans.com wrote:
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
SHAREWARE GAMES crossed out and replaced by TERM PAPER crossed out and replaced by SHAREWARE GAMES
-- Drew
--
Heavy on the dates!
In pen #1, crossed out with pen #2: Shareware summer ’92 In pen #2, crossed out with pen #3: English 141 homework (spring 93) Added in pen #1, also crossed out with pen #3: + term paper 5/93 In pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: System files BACKUP, 7/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #3 and #4: , 7/20/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: , 8/93 In pen #1, crossed out with pen #1: Games from Kim In pen #1, circled, in attempted wildstyle, heavily crossed out with pen #2: GAMES FOR KIM, FROM PAT, PLEASE RETURN In pen #2: Math 390, fall 1995 Added in pen #1: + coursework backup
Then all crossed out with an almost-dry red Bic with a big X and the label CORRUPTED? getting squeezed toward the edge of the paper.
And building on what sincarne said, for maximum palimpsest authenticity, print out some fake commercial labels (BusinessPro for Professionals 2.4, Carnauba Ltd, (602) 555-1888, 230099 Birefringent Pkwy, Trimaran AZ 85058, Installation Disk 1 of 3, do not duplicate) on disks of brand-ish colors, then cross out or blank-address-sticker over them to make the user’s writing surface.
The one thing that would make this look like a fakey prop to me would be one neat label per disk in the same pen and handwriting: unless, of course, it’s made clear in-story that the person who owned the disks was profoundly troubled.
These are great. Keep ‘em coming.
(I’ve labeled one ~CLUB in your honor)
On Oct 1, 2019, 4:06 PM -0400, Charlie celoyd@gmail.com, wrote:
Heavy on the dates!
In pen #1, crossed out with pen #2: Shareware summer ’92 In pen #2, crossed out with pen #3: English 141 homework (spring 93) Added in pen #1, also crossed out with pen #3: + term paper 5/93 In pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: System files BACKUP, 7/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #3 and #4: , 7/20/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: , 8/93 In pen #1, crossed out with pen #1: Games from Kim In pen #1, circled, in attempted wildstyle, heavily crossed out with pen #2: GAMES FOR KIM, FROM PAT, PLEASE RETURN In pen #2: Math 390, fall 1995 Added in pen #1: + coursework backup
Then all crossed out with an almost-dry red Bic with a big X and the label CORRUPTED? getting squeezed toward the edge of the paper.
And building on what sincarne said, for maximum palimpsest authenticity, print out some fake commercial labels (BusinessPro for Professionals 2.4, Carnauba Ltd, (602) 555-1888, 230099 Birefringent Pkwy, Trimaran AZ 85058, Installation Disk 1 of 3, do not duplicate) on disks of brand-ish colors, then cross out or blank-address-sticker over them to make the user’s writing surface.
The one thing that would make this look like a fakey prop to me would be one neat label per disk in the same pen and handwriting: unless, of course, it’s made clear in-story that the person who owned the disks was profoundly troubled.
Some in sharpies, some in blue pen, some in black pen, use different color pens to cross things out, as mentioned earlier.
My floppies got ruined in a basement flood a few years back so I can't give you actual vintage ideas, so I have to go from memory.
The three that I definitely remember having from that era are:
DOS 6.22 Kip's games Backups
Put the "Backups" floppy in your backpack/purse, carry it around with you for a week or two, get a patina on it.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:06 PM Charlie celoyd@gmail.com wrote:
Heavy on the dates!
In pen #1, crossed out with pen #2: Shareware summer ’92 In pen #2, crossed out with pen #3: English 141 homework (spring 93) Added in pen #1, also crossed out with pen #3: + term paper 5/93 In pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: System files BACKUP, 7/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #3 and #4: , 7/20/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: , 8/93 In pen #1, crossed out with pen #1: Games from Kim In pen #1, circled, in attempted wildstyle, heavily crossed out with pen #2: GAMES FOR KIM, FROM PAT, PLEASE RETURN In pen #2: Math 390, fall 1995 Added in pen #1: + coursework backup
Then all crossed out with an almost-dry red Bic with a big X and the label CORRUPTED? getting squeezed toward the edge of the paper.
And building on what sincarne said, for maximum palimpsest authenticity, print out some fake commercial labels (BusinessPro for Professionals 2.4, Carnauba Ltd, (602) 555-1888, 230099 Birefringent Pkwy, Trimaran AZ 85058, Installation Disk 1 of 3, do not duplicate) on disks of brand-ish colors, then cross out or blank-address-sticker over them to make the user’s writing surface.
The one thing that would make this look like a fakey prop to me would be one neat label per disk in the same pen and handwriting: unless, of course, it’s made clear in-story that the person who owned the disks was profoundly troubled.
Eons ago you all helped me come up with label ideas for 3.5” HDD disks for a video I was working on. The video is finally online so I figured I’d show you all how it came out.
The video is the first in a series on Instagram for AARP featuring poetic odes to objects from the 80s and 90s.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxnVlCAtGP/
If you look closely you might see that one disk is labeled ~CLUB.
David
On Oct 1, 2019, 4:06 PM -0400, Charlie celoyd@gmail.com, wrote:
Heavy on the dates!
In pen #1, crossed out with pen #2: Shareware summer ’92 In pen #2, crossed out with pen #3: English 141 homework (spring 93) Added in pen #1, also crossed out with pen #3: + term paper 5/93 In pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: System files BACKUP, 7/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #3 and #4: , 7/20/93 Added in pen #3, crossed out with pen #4: , 8/93 In pen #1, crossed out with pen #1: Games from Kim In pen #1, circled, in attempted wildstyle, heavily crossed out with pen #2: GAMES FOR KIM, FROM PAT, PLEASE RETURN In pen #2: Math 390, fall 1995 Added in pen #1: + coursework backup
Then all crossed out with an almost-dry red Bic with a big X and the label CORRUPTED? getting squeezed toward the edge of the paper.
And building on what sincarne said, for maximum palimpsest authenticity, print out some fake commercial labels (BusinessPro for Professionals 2.4, Carnauba Ltd, (602) 555-1888, 230099 Birefringent Pkwy, Trimaran AZ 85058, Installation Disk 1 of 3, do not duplicate) on disks of brand-ish colors, then cross out or blank-address-sticker over them to make the user’s writing surface.
The one thing that would make this look like a fakey prop to me would be one neat label per disk in the same pen and handwriting: unless, of course, it’s made clear in-story that the person who owned the disks was profoundly troubled.
Stuff Stuff #2 Startup/system sound clip replacements Music backups Pics Backups #1 - 5 Software Installer #1 - 5 Fonts from _____ [person name] Cracked expensive PhotoShaping software
Sent from my not at my desk
I remember my dad buying the Bible on floppies from the Commodore World expo when I was a kid. Much earlier than 1990, though.
AUTOEXEC/CONFIG.SYS Backup (or anything config backup. Whenever we got something working, we saved it to a floppy) MIDI Files Amortization Tables - we had that one. Typed it in from Compute's Gazette BBS Mail Archives Recipe DB BMPs Card File School Work - anyone else remember having your one disk the school gave you? October 1, 2019 7:56 PM, "David Friedman" <david@ironicsans.com (mailto:david@ironicsans.com?to=%22David%20Friedman%22%20david@ironicsans.com)> wrote: You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
Textfiles ASCIIart Phreaking Zines
Although it doesn’t take a full floppy I’d have a disk labeled fsck.
Have you considered parody names for Trademarks:
America Offline CompuSucks (CI$) Microshaft Orifice, Mictosux Windoze, Internet Exploder you get the idea
My Tilde Page [in progress] On Oct 1, 2019, 2:56 PM -0400, David Friedman david@ironicsans.com, wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
Usenet stuff taxes/96 Taxes ’97 color scans Chess.exe HTML homepage fractal art Desktop publishing
On Oct 1, 2019, at 2:56 PM, David Friedman david@ironicsans.com wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
On 10/1/19 12:56 PM, David Friedman wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
Found in the only remaining box of floppies in my house:
"Ancients: 1 the Deathwatch"
"[Name of kid I used to know]'s Disk", line drawn underneath that, "Mark Twain"
"hypercard"
"BAS" - probably a backup of the directory where I kept all my QBasic files.
"cardinal modem setup software"
"windos disk2" - I have no idea.
"win95 sub" - again, no idea.
"privateer boot" - I used to have a whole stack of these with a carefully tweaked AUTOEXEC.BAT / CONFIG.SYS for getting DOS memory management into some kind of just-so state for running various games.
"Nethack 3.3.0" with a little stick guy holding a sword and a bag of loot drawn under it.
I've also got ~30 disks my mom used with her Sony Mavica, a digital camera with a builtin floppy drive. Each is neatly labeled in pencil with the number of images it contains (usually around 24) and a detailed description of contents.
Bring back the floppy formfactor, honestly. I still have shareware games I bought at the mall computer store in like 1993, but somehow I'm down to like 3 or 4 working microsd cards out of the hundred or so I must have acquired at one time or another...
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 01:34:58PM -0600, Brennen Bearnes wrote:
Bring back the floppy formfactor, honestly. I still have shareware games I bought at the mall computer store in like 1993, but somehow I'm down to like 3 or 4 working microsd cards out of the hundred or so I must have acquired at one time or another...
Did I get you right, you want the floppies back? Then I'm with you, absolutely. :-)
-- Brennen Bearnes bbearnes@p1k3.com
At least some of floppies should have the contents labelled without a label. Just straight on the plastic. Some of the labels should include a ? at the end. One that has "BAD" in big letters over the original label
If you want super early Linux then: HJ Lu boot disk image 0.98.1 HJ Lu root disk image 0.98.1 SLS A #1 SLS A #2 SLS A #3
On 10/1/19 13:56, David Friedman wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
WOLFENSTEIN DOOM QUAKE WING COMMANDER Soundblaster Drivers WinAMP
~kentbrew
On Oct 1, 2019, at 11:56 AM, David Friedman david@ironicsans.com wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
I love everything in this thread. My input:
* WARDIALER * ANSIs * Andy * .TXT * Spring semester * Dead Hackers Society * STARFLT A
Alan ~schussat
On 1 Oct 2019, at 11:56, David Friedman wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
DO NOT ERASE
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 2:56 PM David Friedman david@ironicsans.com wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this.
I'm working on a video where a significant prop is an old box of 3.5" HDD disks. I managed to get an old unopened box of pristine disks and labels. Now I need to write on the labels and make them look like someone has actually been using these disks, circa 1990-2000 or so.
All the labels should feel real, but they can't use trademarks. So they can't say "AOL installer" for example.
I've got up to 50 of these, and I'm open to ideas. The gist of what I've got so far is:
Term Papers Personal Letters Mouse Driver 1.1 Fax/Modem Software Soundcard Driver NEW Soundcard Driver Mom's Spaghetti Pixel Racer Man Shoehorn DB PCI Bus Ethernet Drvr CD-ROM Device Driver Installers Very Important Data BBS SysOp 1337 Warez
You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
David
On 10/1/19 2:56 PM, David Friedman wrote:
You're the perfect group of people to turn to for help with this. You get the idea. Send me your suggestions!
At least one of these has to have the shutter pulled off.
STORY TIME: I once worked for an autoglass place supporting the sales department. One salesman, who I'll call Wally because that was his name and it was perfect, really really liked the info the sales spreadsheets gave him, and the ability to edit contracts on the road, but he was hard on hardware. (This was 286 era, so I don't remember exactly what the sales guys' laptops were other than expensive.) I want to say the critters didn't even have hard drives, but maybe there was another reason they had to use floppies. In any event, I wrote Wally a batch script that would help him back up his floppies, and this helped cut down greatly on the number of times he needed rescued, but one day he called in frantic: "I have a contract on this floppy and I haven't backed it up yet and I PUT IT IN MY SHIRT POCKET and the metal thing is bent and I'm afraid if I put it in the drive it'll get stuck!"
Me: "Bring it in, I'll look at it."
In came Wally, in his white wingtips, clutching a diskette like it was a sick child. I looked at it, hmm'd, decided the shutter wasn't salvageable, yanked it off and handed the disk back to him. "Here, don't touch the mag surface, back it up to an intact one."
His eyes about bugged out of his head. "You can just DO that?! I was so worried!"
I wish I remembered his last name so I could look up what became of him. Dude probably founded a sales software company or something and retired wealthy. He was... well, not exactly a *fearless* early adopter, but he didn't let his ABSOLUTE TERROR OF SCREWING UP keep him from forging ahead (and occasionally screwing up).
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