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F L O P P Y D I S K E T T E

It sounds funny but that used to be the main interaction method with a computer, so saying it over and over is just because that's how the machine worked.

No love for 3" or 8" disks in there, tho.

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My mom still had her hard plastic cases full of F L O P P Y D I S K E T T E S from when she was a director of a certain establishment

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Your mom's floppies are probably useless by now. They degrade over time. Edit: The disks, I mean, the disks.

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Those fuckin' things would degrade in the time it took to walk back them fuckers from one machine to another.

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That’s why she has to keep her floppies tucked into her waistline

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I got rid of most of the 3.5" disks I had when I got rid of my last machine that couldn't boot from USB. I still keep a shitton of 5.25" disks around to feed my Kayrpo machines, and to sell to people. There's still a decent base of old, expensive equipment out there that transfers data over 5.25" disks.

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Dude who made this edit was high off his balls.

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The little ones aren't floppy.

And the reason they call the 5.25" ones diskettes is because real disks were 8" or more, like fucking records.

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The little ones aren't floppy.

The disk inside them is

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Ok you win. Hard disks are also named on the rigidity of the disk inside.

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and my nephew discovered saltine crackers can fit in the drive perfectly, so uncle inserts floppy and wtf.

Arrggg, I'm glad he grew up into a responsible young man since his childhood drove me nuts sometimes.

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One time at work I found a cassette that held about five 8" floppies. I think they went with a System36 or something. I just remember feeling relieved that we have so much better shit now, of course that was like 25 years ago.

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3.5" diskettes were great, they even sounded cool. Then Zip was amazing, 100 MB. Then CD-Rs. Then media became a big hassle to store and flip through.

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…. but why?

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Because F L O P P Y D I S K E T T E L I V E S M A T T E R

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But, but, but, the smaller disks are actually the bigger disks. I don't understand.

Damn, those paper 5 1/4 inch floppies were unreliable. So were the 3 1/2s, for that matter. It wasn't a question of would they fail, but when. They always failed.

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Damn that broad had so much hairspray on her head I thought she was going on the space station.

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Don't copy that floppy.

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Who the fuck downvotes floppy disks?

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1:08-1:11 was unexpected...and odd.

edit: Still have 50+ 3.5" disks in a box from 20 years ago with a few being from at least around '96. Most of them have actual stuff on them and not just drivers/software. Also still have a couple 100mb zipdisks and zip drive. Anyone want any compuserve or AOL trial compact discs? Still have some of those.

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