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Posted: 2/6/2022 9:13:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup. https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/441/336/png-transparent-call-log-logo-iphone-4-iphone-3g-iphone-7-telephone-icon-phone-hd-electronics-text-telephone-call.png 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. for exactly the reasons talked about in this thread and you mentioned. Even though the "phone" handset won out, it was argued that it didn't match the "modernness" of using the iPod for the music player icon. the reason the phone was chosen (among many others) was the thinking that anyone not old enough to recognize the phone was too young to be the target customer. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 10:08:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When that icon was being designed there was a raging debate between that and a icon of a number pad. for exactly the reasons talked about in this thread and you mentioned. Even though the "phone" handset won out, it was argued that it didn't match the "modernness" of using the iPod for the music player icon. the reason the phone was chosen (among many others) was the thinking that anyone not old enough to recognize the phone was too young to be the target customer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yup. https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/441/336/png-transparent-call-log-logo-iphone-4-iphone-3g-iphone-7-telephone-icon-phone-hd-electronics-text-telephone-call.png 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. for exactly the reasons talked about in this thread and you mentioned. Even though the "phone" handset won out, it was argued that it didn't match the "modernness" of using the iPod for the music player icon. the reason the phone was chosen (among many others) was the thinking that anyone not old enough to recognize the phone was too young to be the target customer. I don't think I've ever seen an iPod icon. Ironically, that iPod shape is iconic now precisely because its so obsolete. Meanwhile, phone handsets like that are still in wide use in office settings. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 10:43:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ti99 with cassette recorder memory!  I still remember the screeching sounds it made. |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 10:46:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/6/2022 10:57:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think I've ever seen an iPod icon. Ironically, that iPod shape is iconic now precisely because its so obsolete. Meanwhile, phone handsets like that are still in wide use in office settings. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Yup. https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/441/336/png-transparent-call-log-logo-iphone-4-iphone-3g-iphone-7-telephone-icon-phone-hd-electronics-text-telephone-call.png 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. for exactly the reasons talked about in this thread and you mentioned. Even though the "phone" handset won out, it was argued that it didn't match the "modernness" of using the iPod for the music player icon. the reason the phone was chosen (among many others) was the thinking that anyone not old enough to recognize the phone was too young to be the target customer. I don't think I've ever seen an iPod icon. Ironically, that iPod shape is iconic now precisely because its so obsolete. Meanwhile, phone handsets like that are still in wide use in office settings.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 11:21:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The original 8” was made by IBM in the early 70’s and wasn’t commercially released. I used 8in floppies in our Xerox 820 computer. They existed. As did line printers. Remember those? |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 11:42:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used 8in floppies in our Xerox 820 computer. They existed. As did line printers. Remember those? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The original 8" was made by IBM in the early 70's and wasn't commercially released. I used 8in floppies in our Xerox 820 computer. They existed. As did line printers. Remember those? |
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Posted: 2/6/2022 11:45:20 PM EDT
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A majority of zoomers don't have the faintest fucking idea how to use a desktop. Not sure how often they see the icon unless it's in an app on a phone.
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Posted: 2/7/2022 12:16:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. I threw a bunch of blank CD's out a few years ago. I don't see the point of a 650 mb storage device when thumb drives are a thing. They were impressive back in the day, but that day has come and gone. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 12:27:18 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 |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:04:46 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. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I still don't like that the 3.5 is now called a floppy disk. 5.25 is a floppy disk  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. 
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:42:09 AM EDT
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Anybody here ever close the the latch without pushing the floppy disk all the way into the slot and bend/fuck up the disk? lol
My first computer was a Commodore 64 then my dad bought me an Apple II gs. First one I built was a 486 clone with a tape backup. Prodigy dial-up FTW (born in ‘79). |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:43:55 AM EDT
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I remember using these:
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:54:42 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 Nothing like those monsters. I still have IBM and Digital brand ones to go along with my punch cards and paper tape. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:59:04 AM EDT
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It’s a zip drive... duh
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Posted: 2/7/2022 7:56:47 AM EDT
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Back in '87 at Westinghouse, we had a Bernoulli Box connected to our IBM PC.
We thought that was the big time! |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 9:36:13 AM EDT
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Does anyone else remember using a utility to format 3.5 disks with a different FAT to make them have a larger capacity? Seem to remember they could hold 1.7 or 2.1mb with that small tweak.
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Posted: 2/7/2022 12:44:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does anyone else remember using a utility to format 3.5 disks with a different FAT to make them have a larger capacity? Seem to remember they could hold 1.7 or 2.1mb with that small tweak. Yep - thanks to soft sectoring, there were a lot of tricks you could use to extend the usable space on a disk, especially as overall media quality and disk drive quality got better over time. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 12:48:55 PM 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 Correct. They are hard and not floppy at all. |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 12:54:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Correct. They are hard and not floppy at all. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I still don't like that the 3.5 is now called a floppy disk. 5.25 is a floppy disk Correct. They are hard and not floppy at all. Yet they were both called floppy disks, at least back to the late 80s |
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:44:49 PM EDT
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The media inside that holds the data is floppy in both cases. They are not hard platters (as in a Hard Disk), but very flexible pieces of plastic with an oxide layer... hence, floppy.
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Posted: 2/7/2022 1:58:25 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. because nobody uses 8" floppies any more, and the 5.25" disc icons look silly |
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