Post the first thing that comes to mind when you see this
>>108560472I still have some of them. Somewhere.
512 bit sectors
>>108560472>Please insert diskette #7 of 12.>Read error: Aborting installation
>>108560472TGOD. Also, TDC.
>>108560472I'm reminded also of the retarded kid at school who would bend the metal slider so that the disk would get stuck when you tried to eject it.
>>108560472this picture is just an ai generated realistic version of the save icon ahh bruh
>>108560472
>>108560472windows 98 boot diskette to assist in booting from cd-rom
>>108560578Maniac mansion?
a friend gave me a floppy with this shit on iti spent hours on it
>>108560585"hugo's house of horrors" actually. no idea why this instead of the good games from back then but that's what came to mind first
>>1085604721-2mb avi files of porno downloaded from ultrapasswords. In particular the Pamela Anderson sex tape
>>108560599The one in the jungle is at least somewhat ok. The other two are unplayable
>>108560603this post makes me feel old
Using this bad boy at school
>>108560594>a friend gave me a floppy with this shitfor a sec I thought he drew an erotic stick figure that gave you a chub
>>108560627I started getting called old man at 23. I am immune to age insults.
>>108560472Nowadays the first thing I remember is that one could write 32 megabytes on that stuff with proper equipment.I did not know that back then though.
>click save on your Word doc>whole computer freezes for fifteen seconds
https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos
>>108560472Using Mac LCs and Performas in grade school for writing book reports.>>108560594Ah fuck I had forgotten about Pivot.
>>108560472Splitting the moorhuhn exe over several floppies to take a copy back home from our school computers.
>>108560472INSERT DISK 2>NYEHAHAHAHAHA
>>108560472shitty useless with too little space even at it's time
>>108560472>hehe *flick* *flick* *flick* *flick*kinda wonder how my dad felt seeing me format so many floppies back then
>>108560472Kek, I used to use the same brand.
>>108560594pivotmasterdx was based
>>108561025>shitty useless with too little space even at it's timeWrong on both accounts though. It was plenty and more than sufficient up until 1994 or so.
>>108561046Ironic how that gif about nostalgia itself is now slowly approaching the 20 year mark
>>108560472good riddance
>>108561081And with 2.77 MB it wouldn't even fit on one disk.
>>108560472>Post the first thing that comes to mind when you see thisWhy doesn't it have a label?
>>108561400same
>>108560472Save.
>>108560472MS-DOS 6.22 DISK 1 of 3
>>108560472WOLFENSTEIN 3D
>>108560472back in the day you could fit a decent amount of porn images on them due to the quality of them at the time that didnt require megabytes of space for one goddamn image!
>>108560472Abort, Retry, Fail?
>>108561621YeahI vividly remember how most pictures were in the 20 to 50kb ballpark
I remember doing a high school presentation, everyone used floppy disks that had read errors, while mine didn't because I knew floppy disks could fuck up beforehand so I used a CD-RW.
>>108562134Found the teachers pet.Our floppy disks always had "errors" because we didn't do the work.
My dad had a stash of porn on 3.5 disks. They were little exe files that ran on the IBM XT with Herc monochrome. One of them was a girl with full frontal nudity and it scrolled up and down while her tits bounced. Wish I could find it online but I gave up long ago.
>>108562316was it green or orange lady?
>>108562364Why it do be like that?
>>108560472Elementary school and fun happy times when time went slower.
>>108560472Elf elf baby…Elf elf baby…
>>108561046N e v e r Obsolete!
Better times.
>>108560472how i used to store my passwords . this is literally my first password manager.
>>108560472I still store Game Boy and NES roms on these things just because.
>>108560472The floppy drive sitting on top of my PC that needs cleaning.
>>108560472i "salvaged" a floppy drive at work lol, and to my surprise, the thing has an alternative mini-usb in the back, so not only I could hook it up properly via SATA in the tray, but i can also use it as an external drive, sort of like what you have to do nowadays with CD drives that connect to USB.So obviously next I connected it to my iPhone, it spins up then shuts off lol, on Windows 11, it creates an A:/ drive.When I plug DVD/Blueray USB drive to iPhone it works perfectly fine.Both were cool technologies, but they are super slow, floppy is practically unusable, and magnetic media, i would not put my bitcoin wallet on it lol. However, a re-writable DVD can still be useful, until recently I was adamant about using DVD to reinstall Windows because it was always less annoying and more automatic than using a USB stick, but its pretty useless now. Blueray disks are cool though, some i think have like 50GB, but the write speeds are horrific, i think it will take a day or two to write anything.
Not ready reading drive A
>>108560799thats crazy if true
>>108561400why would you scan it with a scanner
>>108561400>so concerned about wasting the few labels i had that i never ended up using any of them
>>108562381not him but he said hercules monochrome, so what colour it was depended on what monitor you used, as the colour of monochrome displays comes from what phosphors it uses
>>108560472my nigger younger brother put the 3.5 inch floppy into the 5.25" floppy driveputer wouldn't boot, said invalid boot diskI was young but figure it out somewhatgot all parts of disk out except the metal slidey bitit was in a place that made computor think there was a disk inserted into 5 1/4"didn't know about setting boot options n shit as i was an 8 year old or some shitcomputer never worked again
>>108562919btw i only wanted to play carmen san diego
>>108560472Mac SE
>>108560472Not one of them fucking worked after a few years of storage, sometimes not even after the same afternoon between using it at school and then trying to read them at home.and 5.25" was even worse.
>>108562967fuck yeah liero
>>108560472>first thing that comes to mind Me running between our main office to our secondaries up and down Manhattan in scorching heat and blizzard colds with the daily "big ones" (news) in the late 80's and early 90's. The boss didn't trust phones and had me and two others run the info on 3.5 inch diskettes.
>>108560472grandefdordo sayv gaym
>>108560472high school, 1985
>>108563070u r my dad
>>108560472my first PC, which is funny because I used those floppies before on an Atari ST, but on that IBM I learned everything about PCs so my guess is that's why it stuck more with that memory
>>108562884I do this in video games all the time
>>108562851on android it runs natively, I've used my USB drive with it
>>108562987did you work for a newspaper?
>>108562134>>108562284duality of man
>>108563146Yep
>>108560472HoMM2, was I think around 90 disks and you just hoped the number 87 wasn't corrupted.
>>108560472>Post the first thing that comes to mind when you see thisThat's how i imagine the person holding it.
>>108562851>magnetic media, i would not put my bitcoin wallet on it Same as HDD's, and not strictly inferior to electron storage (SSD's, usb sticks, SD cards)All have the potential to fail or rot in 5 years or less.If storing data that you cannot risk losing, optical discs are king by a mile.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulh9z-JluBs
>>108560472Spam thread
>>108560472the sound of ejecting one from a drive before inserting another one
the exciting and simultaneously always slightly nerve-wracking (they're not exactly known for their extreme reliability) sound of the heads ticking away as it moves between tracks and the occasional sweep across the disc while your game loads
>>108563718>Spam threadDo you have a singlicious satisfact to snack that up?
I had dozens of these left over from way back. Took them to the library that has a floppy drive and the only recoverable data were some nudes of Geri Halliwell and Anna Nicole Smith.
Amiga, my first computer
>>108560472>Disk read error unable to write to disk in drive A:>Reformat>disk read error, unable to write to disk in drive A:GOD DAMN IT!
>>108560472my dumb 9 years old ass>"wow I can fit so many games on this!">copies the desktop shortcuts
>>108565339if you think that's bad, I burned shortcuts of game installers to a cdrom once
Making a boot disk for every game/demoFucking up and saving changes to pc instead of boot diskMy parents furious that I bricked another pc while I desperately deny it was meAlso used to copy Nesticle and SMB to these, would pass them out at school, then charged $5 for floppies with other games on them. Back then almost no one had internet or knew much about computers besides me so I made a lot of money
>>108560472ARJ
100 posts and noone posted this.you are all young larping bastards
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>>108560472Doom Shareware
