i have some 5 1/4 ones as well but im too lazy to drag them out for a picture
Some kid: "why do you have a bunch of 3D-printed 'save file' buttons?"
no i mean your comment is a step above a kid pointing at a book saying "wheres the power button"
Not really, because that's a very dumb joke, given that a book very obviously doesn't need a power button. Whereas the "save" action betting represented by an item that hasn't been in popular use in 15 years is actually a thing that's eventually going to have some folks asking questions.
Gather round children, and I will tell you a tale of my first family computer. Have you heard of . . . DOS? You had to type commands to make things happen! Floppy disks were actually floppy! Lemmings was dope though. Loved that game. Also Hugo's House of Horrors. I finally beat it once! Such a sense of accomplishment. I had to call the library reference desk to find out the answer to one of the riddles. It wasn't in our encyclopedia, and we didn't have internet.
I'm talking about the OLD floppy disks, that were actually floppy. Not the 3 1/2 ones that were hard.
The first desktop my family had when I was a kid still had a floppy drive
I used to have Xargon and Commander Keen on floppy disks. I played those games for hours and hours and probably never made it more than halfway through either one.
Idk why we don't still use physical media. I've heard the arguments that it's wasteful and all but owning the means of consumption is important, it means some dipshit streaming servie can't dictate what you get to watch, consume, read, or listen to
I hope the PS5 without the disc drive crashes and burns for this very reason
Wow, you still use floppies? I thought they took out the last built-in drive over a decade ago!
i still use them for installing DOS and old versions of windows on old PCs. but for regular use data storage? nah their time is over for that.
Not just installing Linux on those old PC's? BOLD. (Then again, given how KDE and gnome are RAM hogs now... don't blame you)
hey i like my old windows versions! it wasnt untill windows 8 that i started to hate microsoft and move to linux. i use arch btw
As long as you keep them off the internet, they should be fine, right? :p
i've seen CNC machines still used in factories that require floppy disks to transfer programs or restore backups. the past (tech) is never really past.
This was the WORST. Lubricant mist, swarf (metal chips), and all sorts of foreign materials would always find their way into the floppies, fuck up the floppies, destroy CNC programs, and periodically take out the drives on the CNC machines as well. Most of these machines also do RS-232, and if you hook them up to WiFi/Ethernet RS-232 adapters, that is the way to go. Most newer machines have Ethernet (thank god), but even still, many don't.
But I've seen some machines in production which didn't even use floppies. Some old Mazak lathes from the 80s which used cassette tapes which are no longer manufactured. Those had to be retrofitted. Bet it wasn't cheap.
I hated floppies, the rewritable ones were so prone to corrupting files.
