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REMOVABLE MEDIA ANALYSIS BENCH · FLOPPY ERA

Virtual Floppy Infection

ONE PHYSICAL DISK · TWO OTHERWISE DISCONNECTED COMPUTERS

A browser-only, fictional reconstruction of how removable media could carry a conceptual state between machines. No code is executed; no visitor files, disks, or networks are involved.

Safe educational model

SIMULATED · FICTIONAL · BROWSER ONLY. This exhibit changes only deterministic local JavaScript state for one synthetic museum disk. It reads no filesystem, accesses no real media, makes no network requests, and contains no malware or executable sample.

MUSEUM DISK 01 · 3.5" HD FLOPPY · 1.44 MB

Removable media analysis bench

OFFLINE · SYNTHETIC STATE

Resets both fictional computers, the single floppy, defenses, messages, and animation state.

Historical context

Before widespread networking, floppy disks were a major medium for software distribution and file transfer in homes, schools, offices, and software exchange. Brain (1986) and other boot-sector viruses made removable media a significant historical security concern.

This lab focuses on physical media movement and state transfer. It intentionally does not reproduce startup behavior, bytes, offsets, or operational mechanisms.