Re: Article on the last flopp
By: Moondog to MRO on Mon Sep 19 2022 11:11 pm
> Re: Article on the last flopp
> By: MRO to Boraxman on Mon Sep 19 2022 03:05 pm
>
> > Re: Article on the last flopp
> > By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
> >
> > > Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still
h
> > > quite a few floppy drives.
> > >
> > > As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the
> > > tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, heari
ng
> > > the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to fo
rm
> > > it to different capacities.
> >
> > i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
> > bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS
>
> When I got some old pc's out to try and connect to the internet with them, I
> realized how many disks I have that went bad. I had them stacked in piles in
> a box that was placed in a closet where there were extreme changes in
> temperature during the seasons.
>
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Those floppies were so fragile that you could store them properly and still have
them
go to waste.
I lost some good games to data erosion on those ones. Good thing you can still g
et
them elsewhere.
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