And this is a CF card to IDE converter. It seems that CF cards are basically just IDE anyway since the card doesn't have any meaningful electronics on it like the SD -> IDE converter. These were quite popular in the early 2000s when people wanted to build a quiet machine.
Moving into somewhat more conventional territory, here's a 512MB SD card on an IDE adapter, and then a conversion board from laptop 44 pin to desktop 40 pin + power. I use the 512MB card because that's the maximum my 386 can address without additional extensions.
The makers of that 8MB chip (M-Systems) were one of the pioneers of flash based storage solutions. Later on they made this baby, a 256MB SSD that you could plug directly into a PATA IDE slot. M-Systems were later acquired by SanDisk.
Allow me to introduce my small (but growing) collection of solid state disk solutions for my vintage machines. Here we have an 8MB SSD that you can add to a motherboard ROM slot (or to an ISA/PCI card with a large enough slot). Big enough for a DOS system and some network drivers
TIL loguru, a Python logging module that looks really easy (or, stupidly easy, as upstream puts it) to use. Just what I needed. https://github.com/Delgan/loguru#readme
DebConf21 Group photo. This was a tough one, we all really want a real-life event, hopefully next year!
Congrats to the #Flask project on their 2.0 release, it's a really important project that makes easy and sane web development work possible for the masses. https://palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-2-0-released/
The 21st Debian Conference is being held Online, due to COVID-19, from August 23rd to 29th, 2020.
https://debconf20.debconf.org/
https://debconf20.debconf.org/
Catching up with my stable release updates in Debian. They're not really that scary.
These lockdown dreams are strange. Last night I dreamt that I was a contested in Survivor and won. For the final challenge we had to make a toasted cheese sandwich and when I got back home reporters were hassling me with 100s of questions about toasted cheese sandwiches.
Got inspiration to solve a problem with getting Debian bootstrapped on rpi3/4... now I can't find my stupid micro sd -> sd card converter that I need and it's driving me crazy.
The first MiniDebConf Online event has been announced for the end of the month: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/05/msg00001.html #debian
Still kind of amazing that you can install Debian (and other Linux systems) straight from the Windows Store.
Some form of gearbox demo built with magnets. Fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qPSm_8P1E