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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:04:02 PM EDT
Remember floppy discs?
 Attached FileI doubt that many computer users today can relate to the symbol for "save" to floppy discs. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:05:36 PM EDT
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They're not just 3d printed save icons?
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:06:14 PM EDT
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My kids probably don't have a clue.
I probably have some 3.5" disks around somewhere. There's a sealed box of new 5.25" disks in a desk drawer at work, I keep it for laughs. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:07:26 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 a 3.5 Diskette. Floppy Disks were 8” or 5.25”. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:07:37 PM EDT
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I still don't like that the 3.5 is now called a floppy disk.
5.25 is a floppy disk 
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:07:42 PM EDT
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I used floppys into high school. There was a good reason for doing that as opposed to using CDs but I can’t remember what it was now. I graduated in 2008.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:08:26 PM EDT
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The first microprocessor computer I worked on used a teletype tape for the IPL and had a total memory of 10k. We thought we were hot shit when we converted to a cassette tape. Only the mainframes had the real to real tapes.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:09:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:10:23 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 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: 2/5/2022 9:11:02 PM EDT
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What about tabs and margin stops?
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:11:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The first microprocessor computer I worked on used a teletype tape for the IPL. We thought we were hot shit when we converted to a cassette tape. Ti99 with cassette recorder memory! 
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:11:24 PM 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 The disk itself is floppy. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:11:27 PM EDT
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I remember disks
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:12:10 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. That icon isn't even the floppy floppy... (8" or 5 1/2"). Loved the double sided/double density ones - you could cut a write notch on the opposite side and double the possible storage by simply flipping the disk over. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:12:59 PM 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 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. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:14:28 PM EDT
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You will never get your shit together without a Rolodex!
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:14:41 PM EDT
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Winchester Disk FTW
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:14:52 PM EDT
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How about this one, does anyone know what a FDO was?
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:16:03 PM 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. The original 8” was made by IBM in the early 70’s and wasn’t commercially released. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:16:49 PM EDT
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I kick myself regularly for tossing out computer stuff that could be worth a bit now
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:16:55 PM EDT
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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.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:23:15 PM 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. I saw a phone booth recently. I think it was in Forks, WA. I should have photographed it, I think it was working. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:26:20 PM EDT
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Comodore Amiga master race checking in.
I stil have a box of 3.5 floppies. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:27:36 PM 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 Touché. I had some of those. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:30:49 PM EDT
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Used them in the 90's a kid. I remember them being known as Floppy Disks back then, and ever since.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:30:52 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. <---- spent 20 years working for IBM, also owned trash80 and apple ][c back then (edit: and ibm pc xt with turbo button, but that used 5.25" disks) |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:33:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:34:51 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 and even poopy pants guys can be correct. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:36:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:38:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryFuck! I remember playing sierra games for hours! Space quest series, kings quest. Felt so smart solving the tasks. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:39:54 PM EDT
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Our software hasn't had a save button anywhere since like 2005. You make it solid state and let the user go back/undo/redo whatever, not save and continue yes/no/cancel/abort, sure you can export to excel I guess in reports is about it.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:40:13 PM EDT
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I have a USB flash drive in my pocket that is much smaller than a postage stamp and stores the equivalent of a quarter million floppy disks.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:40:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:40:52 PM EDT
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I need 3 - 5 1/2 & 2 - 3.5" disks I will trade a 8" disk and let me know what else I owe you.
This is for the grand kids, I want to give it to them to donate to school |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:41:09 PM EDT
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i showed my 3-year-old son a picture of a landline telephone, he just looked at me like WTF is that?
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:42:47 PM EDT
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I keep an old disk at work for show n’ tell. So far every young intern I showed it to knew what it was but most were fascinated because they never seen one in real life before.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:46:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That icon isn't even the floppy floppy... (8" or 5 1/2"). Loved the double sided/double density ones - you could cut a write notch on the opposite side and double the possible storage by simply flipping the disk over. If you had a double side drive you did not need to flip it. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:49:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: i showed my 3-year-old son a picture of a landline telephone, he just looked at me like WTF is that? My niece and nephew had no clue!!!   |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:51:13 PM EDT
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Why did they pick the 3.5 type for the image? I remember gthe first cumputer at our business had 8 inch floppies and later going to 5 1/4.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:51:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: and even poopy pants guys can be correct. 
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:56:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:59:15 PM EDT
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I had (still have) a digital camera that took 3.5" discs. Sony Mavica. I thought it was the most amazing thing. Really wasn't that long ago.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 9:59:18 PM EDT
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I was charging a bunch of freshman a buck to see some chicks underpants, she found out got mad but I made her trade me a stack of those disks for getting her panties back.
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:05:00 PM 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. you do know there was a 12" too, right?
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:06:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why did they pick the 3.5 type for the image? I remember gthe first cumputer at our business had 8 inch floppies and later going to 5 1/4. Because the 3.5" is what the first macs used, and they did the first common commercially available GUI OS and apps. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:07:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used floppys into high school. There was a good reason for doing that as opposed to using CDs but I can’t remember what it was now. I graduated in 2008. Early CDs were not rewritable. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:08:17 PM EDT
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FyI.... if not already mentioned, you can buy a modern computer floppy disk reader for about $20 - $25.
AND READ + DOWNLOAD the data on it = to you modern computer and HD. If you dare
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:09:18 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 Exactly, and I remember when you could make it a double-sided disk with a hole-punch. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:15:13 PM EDT
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Take a read/listen to the book - Innovator's Delimma
First couple chapters, you will learn quite a bit about the evolution of the disk drive business 1960's to late 90s. |
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:17:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2022 10:20:52 PM EDT
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3.5 inches of 1.4megs of goodness... Until its corrupted
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