[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Floppy disk thread (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 12/8/2016 10:07:16 PM EDT
Show me your floppies!
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Show me your floppies! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg/450px-Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg I worked for over a decade with TDK and Maxell making those,,,more so the MFDs. Later moved on to CDs. |
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So you went to the dark side, well You had better keep your seedy CD filth out of this thread, we only want floppies in this thread. Edit; 5,25" floppies per Apple IIE were the mainstay when I was young.....That was a very fucking long time ago! |
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Trust me it was a bitch making that thinwall plastic housing for the 3.5 MFD. There was nothing easy about doing biddness in that industry back in the day.
ETA: Actually I or I should say TDK has a patent on the flatness test jig of the ABS housing. In fact Apple particularly bought my design in huge numbers since if you remember they had an auto eject feature on their puters, Didn't work so well if the MFD was warped. |
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Oh shit they were horrible as fuck, in fact that one in your picture was not made by Maxell but just repackaged...Gods truth. |
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I miss floppies.
I would always bring my english research papers on floppy to print at school, the day they were due. I figured out that i could save it in some fucked up format and it would look like the floppy was corrupted. Automatic extension on due date. Every time without fail. Sometimes id save a blank document bc i hadnt even started yet. 
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I just have a 3 and 1/2 inch floppy. 
As a kid I had 5.25. https://img0.etsystatic.com/024/1/8154271/il_570xN.490929166_3d8d.jpg I see you got over your bout of dysentery! 
Used to have the set like the one on the right, 'twas a decent one back in the day on the ol' 286. the boss fights used to scare the crap out of me, granted I was about 8 years old.
you can play it online now. |
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Heresy! Throw him to the magnets! |
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I see your zip and raise you a Jaz 
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Still use 3.5" floppy disks on a daily basis at work. There is plenty of equipment out there that still uses them.
Been a while since I bought any. That hundred pack lasted a long time. So, when someone came to me recently needing more... sure, let me look at Staples... oh shit! They stopped making them over 5 years ago!! Plenty of sources out there still. Thanks Ebay :) |
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Click of death 
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Haha those things were great!
Back in like 2003 when I was getting into computers all my best friend and I had were shitty PC's with floppy drives. Our disk drives couldn't burn stuff. We were both heavily into a couple animation programs (Tray Animations (and editor) and Pivot stick figure animator.) We wasted so much time making animations and loading them to floppies and then swapping them at school. Then that night watching what the other person created. Good fucking times. 
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I use those at work to this day. |
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I loaded it that way many times, the real fun was when one of them went bad. Another fun one was loading Novel from disk |
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Placeholder for tomorrow.
Edit: Unknown, Dos 6.2, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows 3.1 Attached File |