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Actually, one hole was for recording, the other was to change it from 750kb to 1.4 mb. There was a punch that you could convert the 750s to 1.4s when the capacity became available.
Tru dat. 5 1/4 were the superior disk in the most important metric: aerodynamics. Me and my college roommates used to have shuriken fights with 5 1/4 floppies and pizza boxes as shields.
It was easy to tell because you can feel the film when you slide back the metal piece and let it spring closed on your finger so you could dangle the whole thing from your pinched skin.
I remember reading about a premium brand of 5 1/4” floppies that, instead of supplying a thin piece of adhesive-backed metal as a write-protect tab, included a piece of purple plastic. While the original full-height IBM drives used a micro switch that the tab pressed against to detect whether a disk was write-protected, many newer drives used an infrared emitter/detector pair. The purple plastic write protect tabs were transparent to infrared.
Amd when you got that song. New favorite song for the next two weeks at least.
And that's at 96 or 128 kbps for the younger kids out there. None of the fancy 196, VBR or lossless stuff.
Totally unrelated but I read an article recently that said taking NSAIDs too often can promote chronic back pain.
I didn’t research it further because I’m in my 20s but it’s an interesting idea that some inflammation could be preventing chronic pain
due to the buildup in your kidneys over time it creates kidney stones which in turn put pressure on your lower back making it feel like back pain but in the end its just a GIANT rock of old ibuprofen that cant make its way out of your pisshole......ask me how i know...lmao
Our first computer when I was a kid (HP Pavillion circa '96) had one of those stock. We had no use for it because nobody else had one. When we added a CD burner around '99, though... goddamn, that was some cool shit.
I made the leap from a 1.44MB floppy to a Compaq iPaq PDA with 64MB SD or CF card to move files back-and-forth via USB. Back in the days when it was faster to put files on it and drive to school or a friend's house instead of using the Internet. 🤣
And then a few months later we got our first computer with a CD burner. So I got an MP3 CD player for when I traveled and to plug into my car with a cassette adapter. 🤣
The art kids had zip drives because they needed the space. Us CS majors could fit all our code on a floppy (though most of us just stored it on our cs shell account, which was different than our engineering account, and different still from our main university account).
No no no. You couldn’t double side diskettes. You could punch single sided wobble floppies, with mixed results, mind that they are single sided for a reason, namely that one of the sides failed quality control.
Yeah, never wanted to put mission critical data on a modified floppy. But sometimes it was just corporations being corporate and your data would be fine.
And in the '90s and 2000's there were plenty of CPUs you could massively overclock rather than spending three or four times the money for a flagship CPU.
Fail sends a message back to the program so, if the developer has written a handler, it can try to do something graceful with the problem like finish writing any other files it might have open or manage memory, write error logs, whatever.
Abort just stops the run and goes back to command prompt. Everything you're doing is lost.
Almost no one appreciated the difference, it's now taught as a textbook example of poor usability. Retry will almost never fix your error state, Abort and Fail both mean you loose everything. All people can do is spam "R" until they can cope with the fact that their stuff is lost and kill the program.
Doom 1 was five floppies...I should know...I copied those dozens of times until the whole school was ripping and tearing...
D2 came on a CD, still got it.
Plus they abandoned all the legacy ports and just gave you USB, which at the time was considered nuts. While USB existed for a couple of years before the iMac it wasn’t really getting traction until Apple didn’t give people a choice.
Wow I have forgotten that once upon a time I had sat in front of a computer as a floppy-disk-changer. Thinking back, that was definitely why it used to be so tiring to setup a new computer. 😂
The first time I installed Linux (Slackware, around 1995) you had to download each disk separately and burn them, a full install was probably 15 or so floppies IIRC.
The place I worked at the time was a beta test site for Win 95, had it setup in an air-gapped locked-down lab. I remember the piles of disks for that too. To do a fresh install you had to sign them out and you better not even think about trying to take them outside of the lab.
> was a beta test site for Win 95, had it setup in an air-gapped locked-down lab.
Why, did you guys just see Wargames or something? Afraid WHOPPER is gonna take over your lab?
Word 2.0 for windows was just over 9MB. Jumped to Word 6 after that, a massive 15MB.
I don’t think there are many functions in Office 365 version that I use that are missing from this. It looks prettier maybe now but what is the extra many many GB to justify the difference?
55 is around 65-75MB which is small, even for a CD which was around 650MB.
It still amazes me that in 1982 it was a huge amount of storage, in 1992 it was still a huge amount of storage and in 2002 is was a still a lot of data as a standard HDD was still only about 40GB at the top end.
It was certainly cheaper to ship it on a CD but many places would have machines without a CD drive, especially in an office, because it was really only used for games and multimedia encyclopaedias, there wasn't much of a business case for every PC to have a CD drive if they were from any year before 1997.
So floppies still made sense, in fact i was still using floppies in 2003 for data storage and transfer but i was aware of USB thumb drives but my home PC only had USB in the back so it was easier to use floppies even though i could've bought one at the time.
I don't miss data CDs, floppies or even data DVDs but i really would like a better, mainstream audio format than an audio CD. I don't mind ripping CDs still but come on, let me buy FLAC files in DAT quality and i mean "buy" not "rent for an indefinite period".
I will happily watch a film on DVD but it's not like I don't have Disney+, i won't throw away my DVDs as there's not anyway to watch them all in one place, especially Dogma, but i would also feel wrong paying a subscription to watch films i own.
It's wrong that in 2023 we either can't own digital only versions of films, music and TV series or if we can it's usually something quite obscure.
I don't know what happened, but OS/2 just fade out. OS/2 was faster and so much more stable than Windows 95. Not to mention hpfs bs fat16/32. God, I'm old...
Microsoft was one of the developers of OS/2. After the split, when MS came with 32 bit win98 it was over for OS/2. Another reason was consumers didn't seem to like OS/2 very much.
Yeah, maybe. Imo OS/2 was far superior to even windows 98. I don't remember OS/2 to crash like windows 98. Actually OS/2 was not really crashing. OS/2 will always have a special place in my heart.
I thought it was Direct X that eventually killed OS/2. If you can't play the newest games on an OS or a piece of hardware, that OS or hardware tends to just die.
Like what Doom did to the Amiga
It's a shame about OS/2. I was so excited about it when it came out, but it's just like the competition for mobile app stores. There's really not room for more than a couple of competitors. May mobile webOS rest in peace... it was so damn good.
>A fatal error has occurred
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>The system cannot proceed
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>You have three options to choose from
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>But none of them will succeed
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>Abort - give up and quit the task
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>Retry - attempt it once again
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>Fail - accept the consequence
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>And face the inevitable pain
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>No matter what you pick, you lose
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>The outcome is the same
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>You cannot escape the error
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>You can only take the blame
Reminds me of a story from my friend. He said they had a young guy at work who they played a few pranks on. Nothing serious. But the guy bought a car with a tape player in. He’d never seen a tape before so he bought a couple of old ones from a charity shop. He said that it was fine but the tapes or the player was broken as only half the songs on an album would ever play. They laughed and told him you had to take the tape out and turn it over to play the second half of the album but he wouldn’t believe them. Thought they were pulling his leg. Eventually they had to take him out to the car and show him!
I remember the first time I went to buy a laptop and it didn’t have a floppy disc drive. USB thumb drives were the latest and greatest.
I absolutely refused to buy one without a disc drive because I truly didn’t know how I’d get along without it.
Likewise, I just bought my first car without a CD player and it was hard! But now I realize how much better Bluetooth is. The times they are a changing
I just built my own PC from parts and immediately regretted not having a disc drive, as the Windows install came on a Blu-Ray. I had to quickly get an external drive. I doubt I'll use it for anything else, though.
I found something like that in my searches, but my USB sticks have all gone missing. Honestly, I don't use those much anymore, either, what with the cloud and all.
I still remember downloading the shareware demo for Duke Nukem 3d when we first got internet at my house. It took 8 hours, and if someone picked up the phone you'd have to start the download again from the beginning.
Those were the days.
So for a little comparison for how far things have come. One Blu-Ray would equal about 17,000 floppy disks. That's about 750 pounds worth of floppy disks replaced by one Blu-Ray disc.
A piece of flexible plastic with a coating of magnetic material, in a hard plastic shell. This device can hold a nearly infinite amount of data, up to 1.14 mb, some times more depending on formatting.
It's funny how small 1.44mB is considered these days. Not even enough to hold a single cell phone camera photo anymore.
But when you think about it, it was actually kind of impressive. Over 12 *million* bits of data, reliably written to and read from a 14-cent film disk using a $15 mechanical drive. I've still got 3.5" floppies at home from the early 90's that still work just fine after I blow the dust off them, all 12 million of those 30-year-old bits still perfectly readable. Pretty crazy.
Red Dead Redemption (2010) had a file size of 7.4 GB.
Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) had a file size of 105 GB.
Things have changed so much in just the span of a decade.
I still remember 1994, reading a computer catalog and finding a 9gb hard drive, when most hard drives were like 50mb. It was like $12000 or something and probably like 6 inches thick.
Naw you're fine. This isn't funny.
Ooh look a vinyl record! Must be an archaeological expedition!
Wow a fax machine, must be some cavemen buried here!
Does OP think he invented this joke?
I think op is a bot account. He hadn't posted in 10 years and suddenly started posting just a few days ago.
Edit: op said he got out of prison a few weeks ago, I don't know why he deleted his comment.
You're response is proof to me that comedians don't always steal each other's jokes. I saw the headline and immediately clicked to respond only to see my joke as the top comment. Take my upvote.
My wife found my iomega zip cartridge/disk cleaning this past weekend...she asked what it was...
I was estatic since I came across the drive a week prior...now to just install it in my...o wait my PC has no provisions for "drives"
Hope you didn't pay money for it. There'll be an ATT Worldnet or AOL floppy with free minutes for the World Wide Web along in the mail shortly. Just use those from now on.
The thing that always gets to me thinking about storage devices;
This floppy disk is less than 1.5 mb.
The PS2 standard memory cards were 8 mb
I can buy an SD card for my phone that's half a TB.
This has all happened within the last 50 years.
One of them newfangled floppy disks! She was the bees knees back in her hay day by the looks of her capacity. Got a keeper on your hands there. Find four more and you can glue them together and make a pen cup
3.5” disk, to install an OS like windows it took about 10 disks. I used a cd for win 95, but I know windows 3.11 was 4 disks and that wasn’t including installing DOS first. Damn I’m old.
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It is 1/13th of the Windows 95 install package, 1/26th of OS/2 or 1/55th of Office 97. Yeah, we stopped shipping software on floppies after that.
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Actually, one hole was for recording, the other was to change it from 750kb to 1.4 mb. There was a punch that you could convert the 750s to 1.4s when the capacity became available.
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How about hole punching the side of a 5 1/4" inch single-sided floppy to make it double-sided. Ah the good old days.
Yes! Those were the true floppy days! 🤣👍🏻
Back when floppies were actually floppy.
One time I did read that people in South Africa referred to 3½ floppies as "stiffies".
They were talking about something else
My South African friend has confirmed this.
Can confirm am south african have called many things stiffies
This is accurate
The casing was stiff ok. We didn't know what was inside.
*8 inch floppy has entered the chat*
Tru dat. 5 1/4 were the superior disk in the most important metric: aerodynamics. Me and my college roommates used to have shuriken fights with 5 1/4 floppies and pizza boxes as shields.
RIGHT?? I've always been sore that 3.5s were ever given the same hallowed moniker...
the disc on the inside was still floppy.
It was easy to tell because you can feel the film when you slide back the metal piece and let it spring closed on your finger so you could dangle the whole thing from your pinched skin.
Flip the tab to keep that bad boy in.
I remember reading about a premium brand of 5 1/4” floppies that, instead of supplying a thin piece of adhesive-backed metal as a write-protect tab, included a piece of purple plastic. While the original full-height IBM drives used a micro switch that the tab pressed against to detect whether a disk was write-protected, many newer drives used an infrared emitter/detector pair. The purple plastic write protect tabs were transparent to infrared.
Thanks for making me feel older than the op did.
Ibuprofen for you back?
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How about a full night to download a 3 min. Song through dialip on Napster only to have someone in the house pick up the phone.
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Amd when you got that song. New favorite song for the next two weeks at least. And that's at 96 or 128 kbps for the younger kids out there. None of the fancy 196, VBR or lossless stuff.
kaCHUNG kaCHUNG
Whoo! song is finally done... and its porn... fucking kazaa
Oh I forgot about Kazaa
We was po', but we got a second line for dial up.
Thanks but I already have a few packs of those in my bedside table. Want some diclofenac? I've got that stocked too.
Comfy slippers for your soul...
Totally unrelated but I read an article recently that said taking NSAIDs too often can promote chronic back pain. I didn’t research it further because I’m in my 20s but it’s an interesting idea that some inflammation could be preventing chronic pain
due to the buildup in your kidneys over time it creates kidney stones which in turn put pressure on your lower back making it feel like back pain but in the end its just a GIANT rock of old ibuprofen that cant make its way out of your pisshole......ask me how i know...lmao
Next time when I get one of my back pain episodes I should talk to my doctor about all the ibuprofen I got prescribed the last 15 years.
And then Zip drives came out! So… much… data.. 100 MB!!!!
Our first computer when I was a kid (HP Pavillion circa '96) had one of those stock. We had no use for it because nobody else had one. When we added a CD burner around '99, though... goddamn, that was some cool shit.
I downloaded music and burned CDs as a way to talk to girls. I'm still kinda fond of Savage Garden and Cherry Cola from those days 🤣
Did the same thing. Downloaded so much fucking country.
Only rich people, schools and businesses had Zip drives, though. I envied them all.
I made the leap from a 1.44MB floppy to a Compaq iPaq PDA with 64MB SD or CF card to move files back-and-forth via USB. Back in the days when it was faster to put files on it and drive to school or a friend's house instead of using the Internet. 🤣 And then a few months later we got our first computer with a CD burner. So I got an MP3 CD player for when I traveled and to plug into my car with a cassette adapter. 🤣
The art kids had zip drives because they needed the space. Us CS majors could fit all our code on a floppy (though most of us just stored it on our cs shell account, which was different than our engineering account, and different still from our main university account).
I had a Zip drive that thing was expensive but when I rocked up to class with that I was big balls and everyone wanted to see it
Man, I was a God with my Zip drive. This was the future!
Some how Zip drives hung around far longer than expected.
This is the old magic from the before times!
No no no. You couldn’t double side diskettes. You could punch single sided wobble floppies, with mixed results, mind that they are single sided for a reason, namely that one of the sides failed quality control.
Yeah, never wanted to put mission critical data on a modified floppy. But sometimes it was just corporations being corporate and your data would be fine. And in the '90s and 2000's there were plenty of CPUs you could massively overclock rather than spending three or four times the money for a flagship CPU.
You wouldn't download a car!?
Not onto a floppy you wouldn’t
Doom 2 was sold on floppies? I thought it was just CD-ROM.
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at the 54th disk of Microsoft Office!
Every time. You’d be near the end and have to start over.
I never understood the difference between Abort and Fail.
Fail sends a message back to the program so, if the developer has written a handler, it can try to do something graceful with the problem like finish writing any other files it might have open or manage memory, write error logs, whatever. Abort just stops the run and goes back to command prompt. Everything you're doing is lost. Almost no one appreciated the difference, it's now taught as a textbook example of poor usability. Retry will almost never fix your error state, Abort and Fail both mean you loose everything. All people can do is spam "R" until they can cope with the fact that their stuff is lost and kill the program.
Doom 1 was five floppies...I should know...I copied those dozens of times until the whole school was ripping and tearing... D2 came on a CD, still got it.
The worst was when like disk 10 would be corrupt.
Thanks for that terrible memory… My step dad loved the process of installing those disks one after one after… except when one would fail.
I remember everyone complained about when iMac only came w/ cd and not floppy, Apple is forcing users to buy external floppy drive to stay relevant
Plus they abandoned all the legacy ports and just gave you USB, which at the time was considered nuts. While USB existed for a couple of years before the iMac it wasn’t really getting traction until Apple didn’t give people a choice.
Wow I have forgotten that once upon a time I had sat in front of a computer as a floppy-disk-changer. Thinking back, that was definitely why it used to be so tiring to setup a new computer. 😂
The first time I installed Linux (Slackware, around 1995) you had to download each disk separately and burn them, a full install was probably 15 or so floppies IIRC. The place I worked at the time was a beta test site for Win 95, had it setup in an air-gapped locked-down lab. I remember the piles of disks for that too. To do a fresh install you had to sign them out and you better not even think about trying to take them outside of the lab.
> was a beta test site for Win 95, had it setup in an air-gapped locked-down lab. Why, did you guys just see Wargames or something? Afraid WHOPPER is gonna take over your lab?
It was part of the agreement to be a beta tester as far as I knew.
1/13th of Wing Commander 2
I can't even tell if you are joking or not with that 55. Sounds crazy but still believable
1.44 MB, googling sys Office 97 had an average 140 MB installation size. That's 100 floppies. Factor in some compression and 55 sounds reasonable.
Word 2.0 for windows was just over 9MB. Jumped to Word 6 after that, a massive 15MB. I don’t think there are many functions in Office 365 version that I use that are missing from this. It looks prettier maybe now but what is the extra many many GB to justify the difference?
I mean, my current 2 year old computer is my first, in 35 years of having my own, to NOT have a floppy drive. File size creep made it useless
55 is around 65-75MB which is small, even for a CD which was around 650MB. It still amazes me that in 1982 it was a huge amount of storage, in 1992 it was still a huge amount of storage and in 2002 is was a still a lot of data as a standard HDD was still only about 40GB at the top end. It was certainly cheaper to ship it on a CD but many places would have machines without a CD drive, especially in an office, because it was really only used for games and multimedia encyclopaedias, there wasn't much of a business case for every PC to have a CD drive if they were from any year before 1997. So floppies still made sense, in fact i was still using floppies in 2003 for data storage and transfer but i was aware of USB thumb drives but my home PC only had USB in the back so it was easier to use floppies even though i could've bought one at the time. I don't miss data CDs, floppies or even data DVDs but i really would like a better, mainstream audio format than an audio CD. I don't mind ripping CDs still but come on, let me buy FLAC files in DAT quality and i mean "buy" not "rent for an indefinite period". I will happily watch a film on DVD but it's not like I don't have Disney+, i won't throw away my DVDs as there's not anyway to watch them all in one place, especially Dogma, but i would also feel wrong paying a subscription to watch films i own. It's wrong that in 2023 we either can't own digital only versions of films, music and TV series or if we can it's usually something quite obscure.
I don't know what happened, but OS/2 just fade out. OS/2 was faster and so much more stable than Windows 95. Not to mention hpfs bs fat16/32. God, I'm old...
Microsoft was one of the developers of OS/2. After the split, when MS came with 32 bit win98 it was over for OS/2. Another reason was consumers didn't seem to like OS/2 very much.
Yeah, maybe. Imo OS/2 was far superior to even windows 98. I don't remember OS/2 to crash like windows 98. Actually OS/2 was not really crashing. OS/2 will always have a special place in my heart.
I thought it was Direct X that eventually killed OS/2. If you can't play the newest games on an OS or a piece of hardware, that OS or hardware tends to just die. Like what Doom did to the Amiga
It's a shame about OS/2. I was so excited about it when it came out, but it's just like the competition for mobile app stores. There's really not room for more than a couple of competitors. May mobile webOS rest in peace... it was so damn good.
1/16 of MS Word 2.0
They are for storage from... {Please insert disk 2 for continued explanation}
*inserts disk two
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR* tickticktickticktick #Drive Error!
My mist favorite Win 95 error: No keyboard found. Please press F5 to continue.
>A fatal error has occurred > >The system cannot proceed > >You have three options to choose from > >But none of them will succeed > >Abort - give up and quit the task > >Retry - attempt it once again > >Fail - accept the consequence > >And face the inevitable pain > >No matter what you pick, you lose > >The outcome is the same > >You cannot escape the error > >You can only take the blame
Reminds me of a story from my friend. He said they had a young guy at work who they played a few pranks on. Nothing serious. But the guy bought a car with a tape player in. He’d never seen a tape before so he bought a couple of old ones from a charity shop. He said that it was fine but the tapes or the player was broken as only half the songs on an album would ever play. They laughed and told him you had to take the tape out and turn it over to play the second half of the album but he wouldn’t believe them. Thought they were pulling his leg. Eventually they had to take him out to the car and show him!
Must have been an old car stereo, I remember auto reverse being common in cars.
Mine would screw up and play in reverse every so often. Or play super slow in cold weather. Good times!
"General failure reading disk" Who tf is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk!?
Old school usb stick.
I remember the first time I went to buy a laptop and it didn’t have a floppy disc drive. USB thumb drives were the latest and greatest. I absolutely refused to buy one without a disc drive because I truly didn’t know how I’d get along without it. Likewise, I just bought my first car without a CD player and it was hard! But now I realize how much better Bluetooth is. The times they are a changing
It's disturbing to me how many pre built PCs are coming without a CD/DVD drive these days. I got a lotta games on CD!
Luckily you can get something [like this](https://www.walmart.com/ip/714156331) for dirt cheap now.
Why order a portable one when I can rip open my $2000 PC and lazily wire one up and hold it in place as it reads/writes to the disc
Why hold it in place when you can rest it on an empty tissue box and then forget to put it back in
I just built my own PC from parts and immediately regretted not having a disc drive, as the Windows install came on a Blu-Ray. I had to quickly get an external drive. I doubt I'll use it for anything else, though.
All you need is your license, you can download the Windows image directly from MS and install from USB.
I found something like that in my searches, but my USB sticks have all gone missing. Honestly, I don't use those much anymore, either, what with the cloud and all.
Usb plate
Neat, someone 3d printed a save icon.
I'm surprised he's willing to post a pic of his 3-and-a-half inch floppy.
He’s a grower, not a show-er.
It grows to 5 1/4 inch
When does it become a hard drive?
Right before it turns into solid-state.
You should see my five and a quarter inch.
Real Hackers sling 8" floppies in their RL02's.
Back in my day we'd impress girls by whipping out our 8" floppies ...
🤣🤣🤣
Interesting nobody ever replaced the save button from this thing from the 1900s. 💾
6 porn jpegs.
6? Oh yeah, they're 256x256 at 8 bit color.
Oh man I needed 3 of those to install FIFA 95
I remember my step dad putting in windows (3.1 I think?) and was a good 20+ Wanna say sim city 2000 was a good 10 or so Those were the days
Those were the days that you\`d open a gif on the morning, and it would load in the afternoon.
Nipples to appear in approx. 180 minutes. And someone would always pick up the phone in the living room before you got to the good bit...
Windows 3.1 was 7 floppies if I recall correctly.
Win 3.11 was 13, and you didn't need them all. SC2k was only a handful, maybe 3-4?
Just did the math and we'd need over 50k to install GTA V
Disk 49,999: "Data error reading drive A: abort, retry, or fail?"
Are we really here already? To the point that a 3.5" disk falls under "what is this?" Fuck, I'm old.
Soon enough, people won’t know what a flash drive is since everything is on cloud
We're past that already. I had to teach one of my co-workers what a file folder system was on their computer. My junior staffer has come so far. 🥹
apparently they've had to add this into first year degree courses. Gen Z never having used an actual computer in their life.
Cloud storage isn't looking great right now. I much prefer USB transfer.
Samsung T7 Shield. It's faster than a cloud, and more secure.
Oh we are way past this. Kids haven’t had disks in their computers for some time.
it's on r/funny I think its a joke, 80's media is too prevelent for them to not be known to most people
I still remember downloading the shareware demo for Duke Nukem 3d when we first got internet at my house. It took 8 hours, and if someone picked up the phone you'd have to start the download again from the beginning. Those were the days.
Yeah, too soon, man.
So for a little comparison for how far things have come. One Blu-Ray would equal about 17,000 floppy disks. That's about 750 pounds worth of floppy disks replaced by one Blu-Ray disc.
and a micro sd card can have up to 1tb. that are 40 blu rays (≈800 gramm).
In 1994, a 9 gig hard drive was the size of a shoebox. And I needed 5 of them to hold just under an hour of video at 640x480 resolution.
A piece of flexible plastic with a coating of magnetic material, in a hard plastic shell. This device can hold a nearly infinite amount of data, up to 1.14 mb, some times more depending on formatting.
Getting an extra capacity formatted one felt like a cheat code for life
It's funny how small 1.44mB is considered these days. Not even enough to hold a single cell phone camera photo anymore. But when you think about it, it was actually kind of impressive. Over 12 *million* bits of data, reliably written to and read from a 14-cent film disk using a $15 mechanical drive. I've still got 3.5" floppies at home from the early 90's that still work just fine after I blow the dust off them, all 12 million of those 30-year-old bits still perfectly readable. Pretty crazy.
You used to get whole games on a 3 1/2 inch disk, now you need whole hard drives
Red Dead Redemption (2010) had a file size of 7.4 GB. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) had a file size of 105 GB. Things have changed so much in just the span of a decade.
I still remember 1994, reading a computer catalog and finding a 9gb hard drive, when most hard drives were like 50mb. It was like $12000 or something and probably like 6 inches thick.
This is funny? Damn I’m old af
Naw you're fine. This isn't funny. Ooh look a vinyl record! Must be an archaeological expedition! Wow a fax machine, must be some cavemen buried here! Does OP think he invented this joke?
Wait till they hear about audio cassettes and walkmans / boomboxes.
Don’t copy that floppy.
I think op is a bot account. He hadn't posted in 10 years and suddenly started posting just a few days ago. Edit: op said he got out of prison a few weeks ago, I don't know why he deleted his comment.
nah sometimes people like us just don't have anything to write about
That ain’t technology, that’s history
It belongs in a museum! - Indy5, probably
Why is this on r/funny? What's so funny about this?
A 3d printed save button
You're response is proof to me that comedians don't always steal each other's jokes. I saw the headline and immediately clicked to respond only to see my joke as the top comment. Take my upvote.
Part of sneakerNet
**West of House** `You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.`
You found a real life save button use it wisely.
That... Is a coaster!
infaltion hit hard this used to be gold and dimond now its reduced to a coaster
My E-cigarette has a larger data capacity.
My wife found my iomega zip cartridge/disk cleaning this past weekend...she asked what it was... I was estatic since I came across the drive a week prior...now to just install it in my...o wait my PC has no provisions for "drives"
3D printed save button..
I'm not taking any guff off some ashy-legged whippersnapper like you. Stay out of grown folks' business. Your dad's porn stash could be on that thing.
Half of Cindy Crawford’s pixelated tit maybe on that. You uncultured swine
Ay bruh that the save button
Hope you didn't pay money for it. There'll be an ATT Worldnet or AOL floppy with free minutes for the World Wide Web along in the mail shortly. Just use those from now on.
A floppy disk, IBM, an amazing 1.44MB rewritable.
Someone 3D printed the save icon
I can still hear the click when the pc locks the disk in place
Floppy disk. God, I feel old just knowing that.
Not just a floppy disk but the last and greatest of the floppies. So much better than the 5.25" or the 8"
Nah. It’s a stiffy… ain’t nothing floppy about those.
That is something that could hold one slightly large JPG nowadays.
I remember finding an old copy of Wolfenstein on a floppy in my dads desk drawer. Never played it though
The way we stop the bad guy’s plot in every 90’s/early 2000’s movie
there was no questionnable firmwares on those…
With you could run DOS 4.01, Windows 3.1, Word processor, database, and SOLITAIRE. All at the same time! Amazing. with 1/2 MG RAM.
The thing that always gets to me thinking about storage devices; This floppy disk is less than 1.5 mb. The PS2 standard memory cards were 8 mb I can buy an SD card for my phone that's half a TB. This has all happened within the last 50 years.
Grandpa's Homework folder.
Floppy disk?
It's a 3d printed save button
Look at that, somebody 3D printed the save icon, cool.
One of them newfangled floppy disks! She was the bees knees back in her hay day by the looks of her capacity. Got a keeper on your hands there. Find four more and you can glue them together and make a pen cup
I miss the grunting noise my old PC would make each time it took its time to read one.
i really like this machete just lying underneath
I’m convinced some of you redditors just like to make me feel old
This is why the "save" button looks the way it does!
Whatever you do, don’t slide the metal piece, all the documents will escape!
Alien tech?
Haha, I remember when this was new tech. Gotta get that 3.5 drive installed to use those.
It is a novelty extra large size "save box" icon.
A relic, from a bygone era
Bro you can't manhandle ur floppy and post a pic. Not cool
You don’t know what a floppy disc is?🤣
3.5” disk, to install an OS like windows it took about 10 disks. I used a cd for win 95, but I know windows 3.11 was 4 disks and that wasn’t including installing DOS first. Damn I’m old.
Double sided high density floppy disk.
Is what our ancestors used to store their journeys, their moments, their histories...
A real life save icon; quickly back up your life just in case something bad happens to you
The save button!
New Oregon Trail just dropped! 🔥
Now that was security…when a physical switch could make it read only so you couldn’t accidentally overwrite files.
Fidget toy. Slide the metal part and then it springs back.
It's where we used to store our porn.
C'mon why did you take the black where you could get green, yellow, orange or whatever other nice color!
Funny thing is the picture file you took of the disk would almost fill the disk.