Thread 107156333

Has ANY of you fucks handled one of those badboys even just once?

>>107156333 (OP)
Not in some years but yes. Had to put one in to boot the machine, then swap it for your program disk.

No hard drive.

>>107156333 (OP)
Sure
Have you ?

What the fuck is that, bro? Is that AI or something, idk wtf that is.

I used these when classmates were already using w98 and played games from CDs.
Sucks to be poorfag but hey at least I had a PC for myself while most of those others had to use either dad's or the "family pc" in general. Also most never learned anything about computers while I got really into hardware by learning to bash together old thrown out computer parts.

>>107156333 (OP)
i used audio types named compact casettes

>>107156333 (OP)
Yes. I even used the larger, 8" floppies on a TRS-80 Model 16.

>>107156400
>8" floppies
now THAT is really floppy

>>107156333 (OP)
May sound autistic but I really liked the sounds those drives made. Because of teh size it was a lot more bassy than the sounds 3.5" drives made.

>>107156333 (OP)
Had these on the BBC Micro at school, revelling in the likes of Funfair and Granny's Garden

>>107156400
That's about $39k in current dollars. Did it come with the black lady as a servant?

>>107156333 (OP)
wtf are you a child?

>>107156406
Looks large enough that it could be rolled up like a scroll.

>>107156521
And mishandling like that happened so often back then.
Rolling them up, folding them, fucking punching holes into them for putting in a folder, you name it

>>107156333 (OP)
dafuq is this, some museum artifact or what?

>>107156445
>first KFC mobile order placed by an eager patron (1977, colorized)

>>107156445
have you ever coded like this? with such a big smile on your face?

>>107156333 (OP)
Yes, first time using a BBC model B in a UK school and the last time using a Prime mainframe at University.

>>107156333 (OP)

Born in 1990, I remember them but by the time I was something like 6 they were entirely obsolete in home use, nobody used them to store anything but text documents and other shit like that. The capacity was really, really small so it was not very useful for anything anymore. Again, home use. Might've been useful in commercial applications where you might have to share files quickly and cost efficiently.

>>107156333 (OP)
MY First computer was an Apple ii or whatever, it used those floppy floppies, had dual floppy drives since I don't think it had any real internal storage. Every game ran from floppy.

>>107156333 (OP)
Got a lot of shareware on those B disks

>>107156554
Probably a couple of times when I first started writing in Perl. Today it's all gluing together various APIs, which isn't fun at all.

>>107156554
yes when I was a kid playing with batch, now I just vibecode and cry when the ai pukes nonsense

They worked well as Frisbee

>>107156333 (OP)
me

have any of you seen one of those really ancient harddrives that weigh like 50 lbs?
i saw one in a physics lab at some point

>>107156333 (OP)
>5.25
Gross. I'm a 3.5 chad.

>>107157526
>5.25
floppy chads were modest, and just said they were 5 in floppies

>>107156333 (OP)
only the true chads know that a hole punch doubles your fun
>t. bought 10 of these just to play ultima 5 on the ][e

>>107157562
>modest
Who wouldn't be with a capacity of 1.6MB? LAYMAYOH

>>107156333 (OP)
The disk that had qbasic was a pretty blue disk

>>107156406
Real men in the early 80s shingled their houses with these...

>>107156333 (OP)
a couple times when I was a kid. I am more of a 3.5" newfag.

>>107157612
I think some printer manufacturers were also using blue floppies.

>>107157562
Shut your mouth! Noone is to know about that!!!

>>107157626
>every shingle has several holes
>"""""""""""real men"""""

>>107157612
I still have one that is bright yellow

Imagine paying $600 ($2000 in 2025 dollars) for a next generation drive only for a slightly different size disk to become the standard.

>>107157667
About that.
Member HD-DVDs?

>>107156333 (OP)
yes. what do I win?

>>107156333 (OP)
Yes. next question?

>>107157612
:) good memories. thanks anon. im sure mine was a small hard disk though. that blue big floppy must have been cool

>>107156491
haha i honestly forgot about the little lock floppy drives had. cant have them escaping

>>107156333 (OP)
Yeah, recently too.
On a PC8801mkII-SR I got recently on an auction.
Ever since moving to Tokyo, I have been having lotsa fun with Japan-specific older machines.

>>107157714
one doesn't realize just how much 360kb (that's bits) is until you program assembly
even this image is x12 the size of one of those floppies

>>107157727
>haha i honestly forgot about the little lock floppy drives had. cant have them escaping
ACKCHUALLY turning that lever made the spindle clamp down on the disk so it wasn't just a lock but actually to make the thing actually spin inside

No, I have couple of drives but no disks

But recently I've had to recover and duplicate some system disks for an industrial machine that only works with 720K 3.5" disk, using a greaseweazle and taping over the density hole

>>107157661
We overlapped them 75% asshole

i've got a c64 with the disc drive, although i'd first have to check out the electronics before i'd plug it in

>>107157775
oh interesting I distinctly remember it being a spring clicking feeling when you turned it, but I never thought about how it actually worked. thanks!

>>107157772
Try programming for a vic20, a famicom, a sega master system or, if you wanna really appreciate these bytes, an atari 2600.

>>107157772
Except that these DD floppies held 360kB when formatted on a PC, I hope that's not a real MS label from the 80s.

>>107157797
Beware while HD floppies work on DD drives, they are not anywhere as reliable as DD floppies for the task.
Also, note Greaseweazle doesn't care about the HD hole, it does not operate in HD or DD sample rates like a controller would but instead super samples the disk.

>>107157820
>Try programming... famicom
indeed. i've written a 65816 assembler and a bunch of little snes games and programs
last one was ages ago, tho (https://github.com/gewballs/graviton)

>>107157775
And if you had the disk inserted only 95%, that spindle would clamp down on your disk, potentially destroying the data on those sectors.

>>107157902
even when it was working, the grinding sounds of the thing were a little disconcerting

>>107156333 (OP)
I remember installing Mario is Missing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Is_Missing! via a series of floppy discs as a kid.

>>107157975
for me, it was mario teaches typing on 3.5 inchers

>>107156333 (OP)
The first computers I used were Apple II machines in elementary school. I thought I still had one of those discs with classwork on it, but I've never been able to find it. I do still have quite a few 3.5 inch floppies.

>>107156333 (OP)
I last used these back at school in 2009-10

>>107157813
Original C64 PSUs are garbage that fail and kill everything on the 5V rail, other than that it will most likely work especially if it's the later revision of C64.

>>107158099
good to know. i've got the equipment to evaluate it when i get around to wanting to play with it, so will definitely give it a close inspection.

>>107157902
Huh. That never happened to me but maybe because I was never in a hurry handling them and did it quite carefully.

>>107156333 (OP)
Lots of them.
Getting my first box of 10 144k floppies was mind blowing enough. Now imagine instantly *doubling* that storage.

>>107156333 (OP)
I think I MAY have seen one of those at my godmother's place when I was real little, she had an Apple II clone. But I definitely used the smaller type.

>>107156333 (OP)
Im not old

>>107156333 (OP)
Yes, I have saved files many times. What a silly question.

>>107158297
Thanks to youtube, many zoomies know all the tech, they never touched it,
They look at a floppy disc and they know what it is, but it's like how you know what a compass or flint pistol is.

>>107156333 (OP)
My grandfather gave me his old IBM PC 5150, so yes, I still gotta fix it though. I also have a drive pulled from an old Packard Bell that needs fixing.

>>107156333 (OP)
Used them for school in the 90s. Haven't had a scenario where I've needed one or used one since I believe late 1999 or early 2000. I honestly don't miss them or have nostalgia for them in the least bit. I was someone trying to use CDs but our class specifically had to use floppy disks. I remember just being pissed at dealing with total retards and not being able to use my own shit which was the more optimal solution.

>>107158580
> it's like how you know what a compass or flint pistol is.
I have both a compass (well a Brunton pocket transit) and a flintlock pistol though.

>>107156333 (OP)
All the time like 30 years ago.
They were already old at that point, most people were onto 3.25 floppies or even CD-ROM!

>>107156445
You leave Mavis Beacon out of this you son of a bitch!

>>107156333 (OP)
Yes
These disks were huge
they could hold command.com
AND
autoexec.bat
ON ONE DISK!

>>107158057
Same. Every word.

>>107159009
Don't forget io.sys and there was one more I can't remember atm

>>107156333 (OP)
yes my old workplace had some
there were even fortran manuals from the 60s
funny old place full of boomers so done with life lol

>>107158898
And i have a box of floppy disks on top my computer, so we both collect what's pretty much relics now.

But yours are older

>>107159009
1.2MB isn't that bad.
You could hold a fuckton of text documents on that motherfucker.

>>107156521
>a 10 inch WANG
i kneel

there were a bunch of them in my house when I was a kid, I never knew what they contained since our old pc broke before I developed awareness and
by the time I got an actual pc I had long lost them(and it couldn't even read them anyway)

>>107157683
some of them being better than bluray in terms of colors and quality was a meme right?

>>107156333 (OP)
I have an original SimCity teacher binder with paper scenarios along with 3.5" and 5.25" floppies

>>107159229
>>a 10 inch WANG
>i kneel

The pic is of an 8 inch floppy, a 5.25 inch floppy and a 3.5 inch floppy.

>>107156333 (OP)
I used to own a Commodore 64. The C-64 disk drive was single-sided. There used to be notch-cutter you can buy to cut a notch in the upper left-hand side of a 5.25 inch floppy drive so we could use both sides of the floppy disk on our single-sided drives by just flipping the disk over and inserting it backwards. (See the notch near the upper right-hand corner?)

Also, at work we had 8 inch floppy disks that held the software for a Pascal compiler for DEC VAX computers.

>>107159721
That should be "cut a notch in the upper left-hand side of a 5.25 inch floppy DISK" not "drive".

>>107159721
Diagonally an 8" floppy, including the case, is more than 10"

>>107159734
Too bad they didn't measure them that way.

>>107159741
They could though

>>107156333 (OP)
No, only the 1.2 MB version. Good times with GW-Basic, and the high school teacher was hot AF.

>>107156333 (OP)
Yeah. My family computer was a 286. Used to go to those independent computer stores and there were a bunch of bootleg DOS games on the 5 inch floppies on display.

>>107158057
When I was sick back in grade school I missed the day when all the kids formatted their disks in the computer lab. I had to do it during recess the day I got back and I ixed up the instructions and typed the wrong letter to format. Apparently it was a server type setup for the Apple II's and the letter I typed was the main computer which apparently didn't have any password protection so the whole lab got formatted. The worst part is that we all had to add names when formatting them so every computer booted up and did nothing except show my name. I didn't get in any trouble but it was apparently a pretty big mistake.

The first love letter I wrote at age 7 was saved on a floppy disk with clipart too.

>>107159734
Don't measure from the taint, son.

>>107159721
Huh. The only 5.25" drive I used was the C64 one so I never realised drives that could read both sides without flipping existed.

5 1/4" are the goat. 3 1/2" were a downgrade.

Only a few years ago I bought a blank floppy and cut it up to use as an IR filter for a camera. I never ended up finishing the project though.
I felt kind of bad destroying what felt like a piece of history, but there was nothing on it and I had no way of using it as intended since I didn't own the right hardware.

>>107156333 (OP)
I used to repair 8" Shugart floppy drives in the 80's - the drives were so expensive it was economical to replace the heads when they wore out. You used a special alignment floppy and an Oscilloscope to align the new heads. I also knew someone who did the same process on early Apple 5"drives due to their cost

>>107156333 (OP)
I once found a copy of wolfenstein 3d in my dads old floppy disk collection, then tried to boot it up on our old laptop. It did not work, I guess the floppy disk was damaged.

>>107156333 (OP)
yes but its been multiple decades

>>107160678
old shit would break, but it was nice that one could fix things
these days you just throw something away and buy a new one

>>107156607
>The capacity was really, really small so it was not very useful for anything anymore
Not true my man, capacity was 1.2mb for 5.25 vs 1.44 for 3.5 but there where programs that could format 5.25 floppy to 1.44 which was essential because all the programs/games/warez where distributed in archives sized for 3.5 floppy. Floppies where used way into late 90s since cd burners where still very expensive, you needed scsi card, blank media was expensive as fuck and buffer overruns where norm ruining your expensive media.

>>107156333 (OP)
Yeah, mainly games for Apple IIe

>>107156333 (OP)
Yeah, we used them in elementary school one time in like 1996.

used to stick my dick in the hole when i was a kid

>>107158580
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Good luck, zoomzooms.

>>107162114
I used one of these phones in 2019, first time in like 24-25 years probably. The sound quality was fucking terrible.

>>107159812
>the high school teacher was hot AF.
She's dead now, you know.

>>107162130
These days we're spoiled with VoIP.

>>107156333 (OP)
Is this really what makes zoomers think they're special in 2025?

>>107162157
No. Zoomers were born with Main Character Syndrome. They don't need a prop to think they're hot shit.

>>107156333 (OP)
I had a Kayrpo running CP/M. That bad boy had *two* floppy drives, double-sided. I was programming in Turbo Pascal and then z80 assembler. Yeah, that was the shit. I miss that system some times.
Of course, I couldn't do audio and video on it.
You're all little babies. ;)