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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
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I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that's what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.
The disk part was still floppy.
Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it's unreadable
My favorite thing was messing with the metal slider until it broke.
Fidge spinners of their time
It was that or ballpoint pens. Good thing we still have the latter since even fidget spinners seem to have disappeared
And you could make a little USS Enterprise out of the metal parts! :D
Pic? I've never heard of this.
I got you fam. Good news: I didn't just imagine this, it turns out! 😁
https://methodshop.com/make-a-starship-enterprise-out-of-a-floppy-disk/
Oh, the D! Now I get it.
Thank you so much!
Shhhck... SNAP. Shhhck.... SNAP.
I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I've seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.
Tape over the read only hole and reuse it: H A C K E R M A N
I always made sure to grab a dozen of those for homework on my way out of CompUSA.
Had a teacher one time draw a grid on her whiteboard with a space for each student, and she asked us to place our disks with our projects on the board with a magnet (so we wouldn't lose them). The school had recently gotten rid of the old dusty chalkboard, and was really enamored with her new whiteboard and showing off her fridge magnet collection.
Luckily, someone pointed out why that was a bad idea before anyone did it, and she quickly changed her mind.