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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 11 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But my dude... Diskettes had Copy Protection! /s

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! The little plastic slider you moved up and down.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

...and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.