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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:31:06 AM EDT

I have hundreds of these things that I used to use in my business.

I can't imagine anyone actually using them for anything with all the new storage tech.

Is there a market for selling them, or are they trash?

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:32:42 AM EDT

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Give them to a museum.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:32:44 AM EDT

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Also, Sony Mavica 85s that used the above mentioned 3.5" floppies.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:33:56 AM EDT

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Seriously though, there has got to be someone out there that "needs" them on ebay!!

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:36:02 AM EDT

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In Office, the save icon is a 3.5 floppy. Ask today's generation what that symbol is and they'll say "save" -- which is correct. But ask them what it actually is and they'll look at you blankly.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:40:15 AM EDT

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We still use them for some ancient CNC machines.

Toss them, many will probably will have read/write issues.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:41:54 AM EDT

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Try North Korea.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:43:43 AM EDT

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I was afraid someone posted another GD penis thread.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:44:43 AM EDT

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The good ol' floppy disk. Here I am 25 years later still trying to wrap my head around the fact that MicroSD cards go as high as 256GB these days.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:44:44 AM EDT

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I bet they're still using 5¼ floppies

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:45:06 AM EDT

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I throw out every one i find.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:45:10 AM EDT

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Probably Federal agencies.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:45:26 AM EDT

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Sell them to the DoD.

Yes, The Pentagon Still Uses Floppy Disks For Nuclear Launches

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:46:11 AM EDT

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Use them for targets. I've used CD/DVDs too. A mess to clean up though.

mm

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:46:33 AM EDT

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Seriously though, there has got to be someone out there that "needs" them on ebay!!

Try North Korea.

I remember seeing these in the Marine Corps...I think it was one reason I thought the idea of home computers was ridiculous!

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:47:44 AM EDT

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you can still buy them new, trash them.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:47:49 AM EDT

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Key ring for those keys you don't want someone to accidentally forget they have in their pocket... You know, the ones you need and have to drive 30 miles to fetch because they're going out of town tomorrow for a week...

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:47:51 AM EDT

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5.25 are the real floppies

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:48:08 AM EDT

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I thought it was about old boobs.

That's how irrelevant the discs are.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:49:44 AM EDT

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I remember having to tell people that a 3 1/2" was still a floppy disk and not a hard disk.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:50:31 AM EDT

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The good ol' floppy disk. Here I am 25 years later still trying to wrap my head around the fact that MicroSD cards go as high as 256GB these days.

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Not as bad as a hugely expensive 20mb scsi disk drive...

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:51:33 AM EDT

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This.

I found my old college stash of these not long ago.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:51:43 AM EDT

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They make great targets.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:52:15 AM EDT

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5 1\4" AND our phone system at work was backed up on 8" floppies.
Still have a few somewhere.

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:54:33 AM EDT

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I still use them with my Toshiba Libretto 50CT (similar to the one below.....)

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Posted: 4/18/2017 10:02:51 AM EDT

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Make the Starship Enterprise out of them.

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:04:28 AM EDT

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Went to a new digital camera using SD cards years ago partly because I was having issues. All these disks, the cameras, and the drives have all been in storage since.

I just don't know if it is worth the hassle and effort to try to sell it. I am not exactly savvy on ebay selling and don't want to open myself up to some liability.

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:08:29 AM EDT

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Came in for this .... backed out slowly

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:12:03 AM EDT

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I used one for a visible light filter for making an eye tracking camera.

Other than that they are not worth anything

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:12:51 AM EDT

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First "floppy" was 8" (1967)

5-1/4" floppy came along in 1976

3-1/2" introduced 1982 and is not really a floppy, it is a diskette.

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:14:30 AM EDT

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I have hundreds of these things that I used to use in my business.

I can't imagine anyone actually using them for anything with all the new storage tech.

Is there a market for selling them, or are they trash?

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Actually, I could use some.

My Yahama Clavinova piano uses them as storage device. If you want to sell me like 20, I'll buy them. Send me a PM.

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:29:32 AM EDT

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I just put the last pack of mine in the shred bin.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:23:50 AM EDT

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i thought op was calling me out.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:28:23 AM EDT

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I remember always getting those AOL free 10 hours disks. Erased them and reused them.

Threw them all out when I moved. I had a drive in my old computer but it died so it pulled it and trashed it too.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:29:02 AM EDT

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I remember a time standing in the government supply center with my supervisor - you could get individual single sided 5 1/4" floppy disks or you could buy a box.
So I ask "which should we get?"
His response was why would anyone ever need to store that much data?
Ah, computing in the '80s.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:31:14 AM EDT

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But you still clicked?

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:32:48 AM EDT

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Op would you happen to have any laser disc?

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:33:28 AM EDT

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I was afraid someone posted another GD penis thread.

But you still clicked?

as nammah pointed out it was either going to be peen or boobs. 50/50 are good odds.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:36:11 AM EDT

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I still have boxes of ZIP disks and SyQuest cartridges.

So much unreadable data...

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:36:37 AM EDT

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work great as coasters! and so do DVDs.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:37:05 AM EDT

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That's pretty weak.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:37:32 AM EDT

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No laser disks OR dick pics.

Sorry to disappoint!!!

You would not be impressed.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:38:40 AM EDT

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Please insert disk #26

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:39:00 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/18/2017 11:39:34 AM EDT

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I still have several hundred (thousand?) 3.5 and 5.25 disks stuffed in boxed around the office. There might even be some 8" hiding somewhere. I need to see how many it takes to stop a rifle round or something cool.

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:39:49 AM EDT

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as nammah pointed out it was either going to be peen or boobs. 50/50 are good odds.

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I was afraid someone posted another GD penis thread.

But you still clicked?

as nammah pointed out it was either going to be peen or boobs. 50/50 are good odds.

That's a risky game!

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:56:36 AM EDT

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We still use them for some ancient CNC machines.

Toss them, many will probably will have read/write issues.

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One of our wire EDM's finally got a USB interface installed for loading programs, about the last year or 2. They were using the same 3.5" floppies over and over and over.