Does anyone remember using these guys?

I do, very briefly. Along with ribbon printers.

Real nostalgia days.

N O S T A L G I A

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[Subject 19]

Floppy Disks!!! Oh my God those were the days! I was just old enough to remember using floppy disks when I was young. Good times.

[Herald of Opera]

I don't remember, per se, but I think I might have used them at some point. It's actually kind of funny how future generations will have basically no idea what the "Save" icon is supposed to resemble.

[ShadowStar_IMHP]

A very long time ago. They were already been phased out and the hard cover 3.5 floppies were just hitting the market. There was this computer in the school library that still had a drive for those kind.

[Javarod]

Of course, just as i remember single sided disks, and Apple's innovative Mac with it's unique 31/2in floppy. Heck, i learned to type on an IBM Selectra. Oh, and 40MB hard drives which were bigger than everyone would ever need.

[kits]

Get off my lawn with your fancy miniature floppy diskettes. In my day, we needed a whole 12” to store data. And that’s the way we liked it. Now all you kids are walking around with your Zip disks and your bubble gum.

[VampDash]

WHY DO I FEEL OLD?!

[Necrogen Lord]

God, I was playing the RE2 remake in a computer lab at my Community College and someone asked what the thing I picked up was.

"You mean the VHS tape?"

"What's a VHS?"

[Damaged]

Mmm...

Five and a quarter inches of heaven~.

[Level Dasher]

Ah yes, floppy disks. I remember having games on those. Right when the Gateway was the new hip thing.

[BoredAuthor817]

I'm a little young for these. 3-1/2 floppies were the thing when I came around.

[Scratchpad]

Sure. Do you remember acoustic modems where the handset fit into the device?

[Shadow_Wolf]

Ahhh yes, I remember these quite well!

[Admiral Biscuit]

Trs80, baby.

Legit used these mofos in college, even.

[iisaw]

Remember them? I still use them from time to time! The old Hitachi 717 chemical analyzer still uses them for setup configuration storage. It's a medical instrument, so the FDA approval process to make changes to the instrument would cost more than maintaining an operating facility to manufacture the disks, which Hitachi still does. I think the US government still uses those floppies for some systems as well.

[Herald of Opera]

5149816
And I thought all of the failing in the US medical system was due to killing anyone who ever uses it with the costs!

[Cross Lament]

Didn't the US Air Force finally retire 8" floppy disks just this year?

[Georg]

5149816 Don't make me get my 8 inch floppy drives out of the basement.
5149814 Single-sided, double density. I have one in the basement.
5149801 I have one that doubles as a printer. Perkins-Elmer 650 Hardcopy Terminal.
5149798 Actually, most of my games are on 3.5" disks. I still have the TRS-80 Color Computer library.
5149783 Don't.
5149782 I think I have a Zip disk in my pile somewhere. Not sure. I know our main office has one with some super-special files that they kept archived on them. (about 20 years ago, so in reality they're toast, but we don't dare tell the office.)
5149781 My Selectric is in the basement next to my manual typewriter. They still work.

So tempted to pull out the old Seequa Chameleon with its dual-processor design (8086 and Z-80 for dual-boot functionality), built in two 5.25" floppy drives, and 6" monochrome monitor. Now *that* was a laptop. It was also about 50 pounds. And yes, it's in my basement. (I don't have a keyboard for it, so if anybody has one of the originals...)

[hanatoro]

I remember loading these things into an external drive to run them on my Commadore64.

[TheMyth]

some banks still use floppy discs for storing passwords and other small text files... they cannot be hacked

[Papa Dragon]

School computer lab when I was in elementary school. They had those small screens that showed everything in green.

[Scratchpad]

5149833
Ok, I can see that, but as a long term storage media, I have my doubts in terms of longevity. Magnetic media... All it takes is a stray magnet or an EM pulse.

[LightOfTriumph]

I remember the 3 & 1/2 inch ones. The ones that weren't floppy.

[marcelojj]

5149816
Yes....some systems. Like the IBM's Minuteman nuclear missiles. And I mean it...they just started to use pen drives for the launch codes and target orders literally THIS week. Those old floppy disks are impossible to hack.

[Eris Dis Harmonia]

It's a floppy!

I have too many, and windows 96.

[CapNTilfy]

Oh man, that takes me back. Back when I had next to no fucking clue what I was doing. XD

I wish I could remember titles of the games that I played. @_@

[PresentPerfect]

Locking those things in the drive was always somehow satisfying.

I still have all my 3.5" floppies somewhere. :B

[Machine]

I think my father remembers after all he is a computer.

[iisaw]

5149821
Well, I mostly see Hit717 machines in vet labs, so they only kill puppies, I guess.

5149838

5149814
Trash80s were the best!

5149832
Wait, no! Commodore 64s were the best! No, Amigas! No,... aaaaaargh!

[LotusTeaDragon]

*removes Elite from paper sleeve*
*slides floppy disk into C64 1541 disk drive with a "shhhhick" and "click"*

LOAD *, 8, 1

Mmm.

[Cerulean Blue]

My very very first computer used cassettes. 8 inch floppies are much better.

[shalrath]

The first time I had to troubleshoot the family computer, my mom had managed to slip a 5.25 floppy in the gap between the A: and B: drives, which had pushed the ribbon cable connector off the 3.5" drive, and thus she couldn't load her WordPerfect files from work.

For the record, this was a while ago..

[shalrath]

5149920
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[Moon Quil]

Oh I remember that my dad would use them a lot when I was a baby and I kept playing with them not knowing what it was as I was dumb at the time lol

[Jakomi of the Rose]

Only barely. We had them when I was about 6 or 7.

[Brony God]

I do remember using those 5 inch disks when I was little.

[FanOfMostEverything]

i've defintely used them in the past, though by the time I first gazed in wonder at the new family Macintosh, state-of-the-art floppy disks had shrunk and hardened. Presumably so they wouldn't spoil in transit.

[liger090]

Floppy disks I remember playing commander Keen as a kid way to make me feel old

[Shakespearicles]

5149792

"What's a VHS?"

>TFW this whole thread
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[LotusTeaDragon]

5149950
*slow clap*

I wish I could remember how to do all of that. When I was a kid, it was easy to remember hundreds of commands in QBASIC. I used to sit at my little C64 keyboard (the C64C) and type until my fingers hurt, making spreadsheets, sprite animations, and other things. I know it's probably just nostalgia, but computing seemed like such an adventure back then.

[CommanderBigMac]

The nostalgia is strong with this one

[shalrath]

5150061
That particular command was used to define the COM ports on my 386 so my modem (on COM3) would be recognized. Getting on the Internet back in the day was an amazing motivational tool for learning all the hoops you had to jump through just to do so.

[Absentia 616]

I shall admit to nothing

[Grtgfbll]

5149792 5150025 The security deactivaters at work were clearly labeled, in images, "no cassettes, no floppies, no VHS, and no credit cards" since they're magnetic. I've had to explain three of those images to coworkers. Guess which three.😓

[Shakespearicles]

5172591
feed them tide pods