11 months ago

Yeo Kheng Meng is a Singapore-based embedded security researcher — and a retrocomputing enthusiast. In 2019 Meng coded up his own Slack client https://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/, and ever since then, he’s wondered if it would be possible to target an even older platform.

Meng passed around for the audience a 3 1/2-inch floppy disk, “in case some of you haven’t seen it before.”

It’s so old, it’s not equipped with wireless capabilities — or even an internet cable — which presented Meng with his first challenge.

We’d wanted to interview Meng — but Hugging Face seems to have beaten us to it, in a lovely conversation that Meng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jDqLdEu8M.