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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:09:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I doubt any new users know what a floppy disc or Zip drive is. I bet they have never heard of an 8 track tape or cassette, much less a record. They also dont know what a rotary phone is and have never seen a phone booth. This post made me feel old 
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:10:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People who actually used them still called the 3.5s "floppy disks", regardless of the fact that they weren't actually floppy like the older ones. Sincerely, an old fart. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Floppy disks were floppy thin and not rigid at all like the 3.5 was. People who actually used them still called the 3.5s "floppy disks", regardless of the fact that they weren't actually floppy like the older ones. Sincerely, an old fart. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:11:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This post made me feel old Nah. Embrace it and rock that shit. Remember "on the shoulders of giants" because that's what the current generation is doing. We were the giants. 
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:13:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: i had a toshiba in the 80s that used the original 8" floppy disks but let's be real. it's not like kids today recognize manila folders, file cabinets, phone handsets, or anything else. heck, half of them probably never used a magnifying glass. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That isn't a floppy disk. This is a floppy disk. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/58599/8-inch-floppy_jpeg-2268396.JPG i had a toshiba in the 80s that used the original 8" floppy disks but let's be real. it's not like kids today recognize manila folders, file cabinets, phone handsets, or anything else. heck, half of them probably never used a magnifying glass. Yup.  Iconography is a funny thing. Once you know what it means, it doesn't have to really look like anything in particular. And classic design tends to stick around. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:15:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It may have said diskette on the box but everybody called them floppies. And if you took one apart it there was a floppy disk inside. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Floppy disks were floppy thin and not rigid at all like the 3.5 was. People who actually used them still called the 3.5s "floppy disks", regardless of the fact that they weren't actually floppy like the older ones. Sincerely, an old fart. Yup. You had floppy disks and hard disks, and it had shit to do with the rigidity of the outer plastic. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:17:59 AM EDT
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Oregon Trail
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:20:30 AM EDT
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Grab your hole punch and start slotting floppies (so you can write on the back side).
Mike |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:21:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Grab your hole punch and start slotting floppies (so you can write on the back side). Mike My man. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:22:33 AM EDT
[#9]
lol
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:27:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When you disassemble the 3.5 there is a small floppy in the inside. I forget what they were called; but the next generation portable disk had a Ceramic disk. The next ones were ZIP disks. An astonishing 100 MB of storage! |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:29:26 AM EDT
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Agree on the 3.5 being a floppy. Sometimes we would call 5.25s "floppy floppies"
And there was the square hole punch for making 720s into 1.44s  like free money, maaaan.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:41:00 AM EDT
[#12]
i remember
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Posted: 2/6/2022 1:42:52 AM EDT
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I am sure everyone still remember the sound it makes when you insert a 3.5" disk.
>plop< >whirl< |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:02:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The original 8” was made by IBM in the early 70’s and wasn’t commercially released. What do you mean? We had shit loads of 8” floppies at my house growing up. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:06:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably everyone born before about 1990 knows what that is. I was born in 1991 and I used 3.5" floppies as a kid, but I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I don't really fit into the demographic 'young computer users' anymore   
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:11:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When you disassemble the 3.5 there is a small floppy in the inside. I forget what they were called; but the next generation portable disk had a Ceramic disk. ZIP Drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Never really caught on, as CD Burners and flash drives were coming in. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:19:14 AM EDT
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Q "Anybody have a 3.5" stiffie?"
A "Man, if anybody had a 3.5" stiffie I don't think they'd admit it." |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:27:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That isn't a floppy disk. This is a floppy disk. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/58599/8-inch-floppy_jpeg-2268396.JPG War Games movies sized floppy disk for the win! |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:31:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I doubt any new users know what a floppy disc or Zip drive is. I bet they have never heard of an 8 track tape or cassette, much less a record. They also dont know what a rotary phone is and have never seen a phone booth. Vinyl records are popular with the “cool” kids. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:34:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:34:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ZIP Drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Never really caught on, as CD Burners and flash drives were coming in. There were few other makers/formats of removable HD at the time. One had an Italian sounding name, IIRC. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:36:53 AM EDT
[#22]
Mag tapes and punched cards rule!
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:47:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still don't like that the 3.5 is now called a floppy disk. 5.25 is a floppy disk  right |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:49:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/274692/46EAA553-6B3A-4BC8-9A48-102C75FDDACC_jpe-2268452.JPG I found a floppy disk in a drawer at work so I labeled it and put it back. 
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:51:02 AM EDT
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My little brother is a computer engineer...he's never used a floppy disk
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Posted: 2/6/2022 3:00:21 AM EDT
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Laughs in ZORK
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Posted: 2/6/2022 3:55:02 AM EDT
[#27]
My kids know. But then again I had them build their own PCs and install windows themselves.
They know what a 5.25 and 3.5" Floppy" is. I bored them with tales of my 286 and DOS, and Windows 3.1. I still have some data on 3.5s somewhere, and a USB 3.5" external floppy drive in boxes somewhere.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 4:33:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/274692/46EAA553-6B3A-4BC8-9A48-102C75FDDACC_jpe-2268452.JPG I found a floppy disk in a drawer at work so I labeled it and put it back. 
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Posted: 2/6/2022 4:38:04 AM EDT
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Regular parlance was all the insertable disks were pretty much called floppies.
12" flexible disk (rare) 8" floppy disk 5.25" mini floppy 3.5" micro floppy Also had SD/DD/HD/UHD versions, plus single or double sided - all the way up to the short lived and glorious 2.88Mb DS/UHD 3.5 micros Apple ][+ single-sided double density (SSDD)? - whopping 160k or so, and you could punch another ear and flip it over to make it a flippy disk and use both sides. Or you were a stud who had a double-sided drive that didn't require flipping, but did require you to punch a different ear for the double-sided sensor to let it be used as double-sided. Most common for most users who ain't dead yet was probably the double-sided, high-density (DSHD) standard 1.44Mb 3.5" micro floppy, with a very brief appearance of the 2.88Mb before we trashed it all for cd and usb and zip disks, etc. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 4:52:36 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I still don't like that the 3.5 is now called a floppy disk. 5.25 is a floppy disk My dad was a pretty early adopter, we had PCs in the 80s. Both were floppy disks even that far back. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:01:20 AM EDT
[#31]
RAMAC master race.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:06:28 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I doubt any new users know what a floppy disc or Zip drive is. I bet they have never heard of an 8 track tape or cassette, much less a record. They also dont know what a rotary phone is and have never seen a phone booth. TBF zip drives were relevant for about five minutes. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:06:40 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People who actually used them still called the 3.5s "floppy disks", regardless of the fact that they weren't actually floppy like the older ones. Sincerely, an old fart. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Floppy disks were floppy thin and not rigid at all like the 3.5 was. People who actually used them still called the 3.5s "floppy disks", regardless of the fact that they weren't actually floppy like the older ones. Sincerely, an old fart. yup |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 12:42:19 PM EDT
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Quoted: Remember floppy discs? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/62111/Capture_JPG-2268387.JPG I doubt that many computer users today can relate to the symbol for "save" to floppy discs. It is the newfangled 3.5" version as well. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 2:50:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What do you mean? We had shit loads of 8” floppies at my house growing up. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The original 8” was made by IBM in the early 70’s and wasn’t commercially released. What do you mean? We had shit loads of 8” floppies at my house growing up. Wow. Never saw one in a house. First and only time I ever saw those was at the local nuclear power plant. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:24:15 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/274692/46EAA553-6B3A-4BC8-9A48-102C75FDDACC_jpe-2268452.JPG I found a floppy disk in a drawer at work so I labeled it and put it back. that is some funny shit |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:38:38 PM EDT
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 Attached FileI loved Fortran (and still do). When I was taking Fortran IV in college in the summer of 1966, the school had an IBM main frame computer. Students were not allowed to use it during the days. Students had to reserve it at night in 30-minute increments. Many a night I walked across campus at 1:30 a.m., turned on the lights in the engineering building, turned on the main frame computer, ran a Fortran IV compiler, then ran my punched cards through the card reader, got the results in punched cards, put those results in a (card reader) printer and saw my errors. My first computer use at work (for GE in 1970) was on a teletype machine that ran punched tape for data entry into a time-shared main frame located at a nearby bank. It ran at a blinding speed of 110 characters per second. I can still hear the clack-clack-clack of that teletype printer. By the way, you can still download FORTRAN (for free) to your PC and program in it. A few years ago I was helping an engineering student at a nearby college. He had a homework assignment to calculate the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a piston on a slider crank mechanism through 360 degrees of rotation. I downloaded FORTRAN, wrote a FORTRAN program for it, imported the results into Excel and printed him out a graph of the displacement, velocity, and acceleration vs degrees rotation. He later said that "we" got an A. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:53:53 PM EDT
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I still use floppy's at least two or more times a week.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 5:54:50 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/274692/46EAA553-6B3A-4BC8-9A48-102C75FDDACC_jpe-2268452.JPG I found a floppy disk in a drawer at work so I labeled it and put it back.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:01:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What do you mean? We had shit loads of 8” floppies at my house growing up. The 70’s version was a read only and was either the IPL or software update for the piece of equipment such as a telephone PBX. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:02:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThose make great note cards. Write on the back and fold it over to put it in your shirt pocket. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:13:56 PM EDT
[#42]
Laughs in commodore 64 with cassette recorder...
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:21:34 PM EDT
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Fucking kids today. We saved to tape and we liked it damnit.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:22:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 70’s version was a read only and was either the IPL or software update for the piece of equipment such as a telephone PBX. "In 1973, Shugart founded Shugart Associates which went on to become the dominant manufacturer of 8-inch floppy disk drives. Its SA800 became the industry standard for form factor and interface." 8" drives were very popular on systems besides IBM in the mid 70's to the early 80's. All the S100 bus computers had them either with the computer from the factory or as a add-on. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:36:38 PM EDT
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Anyone remember the old IBM/AS400 system?
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:37:36 PM EDT
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Yes, the 3.5" ones were called floppies. On the old Macs, the 3.5" drives were called FHHDs, for floppy drive, high density.
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Posted: 2/6/2022 6:38:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone remember the old IBM/AS400 system? We still have one at work in production. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 7:31:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryCan we get back to this picture? Is it real? Windows 8 in 3711 disks? |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 7:44:08 PM EDT
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I have an unopened package if writable cd's. But I no longer have an optical drive on any computer.
in 10 years, no one will know what those are either. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 8:51:01 PM EDT
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Bernoulli Disks were the next step up. They held 20MB(?). We had a $200,000 animation computer called a Dubner, and it used these for it's media. This computer filled a 6 foot equipment rack. LOL.
I hated it.  I did the Fortran/punch card thing my high school senior year, 1970. They ran out of things to teach us. LOL. Calculus was junior year.  This disk was maybe 12 inches long. Inside was just a huge floppy. It took maybe a minute and a half from when you would insert, and it was done initializing to access the data. The animation it produced was very primitive. But, this was maybe 1982. |
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