Most upvoted thing is a pic of my History teacher's Hall Pass which is a floppy disk it got 50k upvotes on /r/mildlyinteresting
On this sub it's a pic of Obama written in letter blocks with ~350 upvotes
The US nuclear forces’ Dr. Strangelove-era messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/…
TIL the last Blockbuster on earth, in Bend, OR uses floppy disks to boot their system, employees have to hand print cards because their printers broke, and transactions are backed up on a reel-to-reel tape that can't be replaced because Radio Shack went out of business. wfaa.com/article/news/las…
I recently went to my local recycling centre to drop off an old wifi router, and I found this beautiful boi lying in the tech bin on top of a bunch of floppy disks. The employees said I could keep it!
There are two types of people who don't know why the save icon is a floppy disk. Those who are too new to technology and those who are too old to technology.
[Off-Site] Floppy disks required to store "Breath Of The Wild"
The US nuclear forces’ Dr. Strangelove-era messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/…
Floppy disks are like Jesus- they died to become the icon of saving.
I collect floppy disks for my art, but I *always* set aside the good stuff. Here's some of it - I hope it brings back good memories!
Credit cards will be the “floppy disks” of the next generation.
The metal part of the floppy disk that snaps back and forth was the original fidget spinner.
Just got my final reissue BEPIS cassette in the mail! I was lucky enough to receive one of the 10 floppy disks that came with the first 10 orders. Totally gonna crack open a sofa over ice and give this a listen
Random thought: was Episode IV and Episode VII both giant ads for cloud computing and anti-USB / floppy disks? The files could have been transferred far easier avoiding a lot of unnecessary drama. What would the saga looked like if there was a non-physical data transfer of the plans/map?
/u/ocelost explains how a prank involving putting an upside down version of a game on the opposite side of the floppy disk might actually act as an ingenious diagnostic feature for customer support [xpost from r/todayilearned] reddit.com/r/todayilearne…
Anyone remember GameFan magazine? Here's the storefront of the office where they worked on the first issue in the early '90s and now! (Note the chic floppy disk door design!)
The US nuclear forces’ Dr. Strangelove-era messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/…
Just saw a job listing offering $4.25/hr for the next year to stuff a bunch of floppy disks in envelopes to mail out to people. And each one comes with 1,000 hours of free internet. No surprise they can only pay min wage. Good luck with that business model, American Online. Lol.
Jurassic Park was on of my first games I've played and I found those and other floppy disks in the basement yesterday.
My Grandpa has lots of information saved on floppy disks, and is too stubborn to transfer the data. So every time he gets a "new" computer, he modifies it with some blocks of wood to fit a 3.5 inch drive.
There is a substantial if not a majority population of computer users in this world, that can identify the floppy disk only as the save icon and do not question its origins.
Here are some old Floppy Disks I have. Three out of the 200+ I have.
How Do I Hide Floppy Image Disk Sets Of Titles So That I Only See The "Main", "First" Or Template File? Applies To Any Of The Computer Titles Where You Have Multiple Disks.
Certain breeds of hamsters can be used to read 3.5 inch floppy disks.
Now it's alive, thanks to the most one-off recovery disk on archive.org and the many CDRs and floppies that sacrificed their lives. Now it's running OS/2 and Windows 3.11 feat. Opus N Bill's screensaver pack.
The US nukes will no longer run on plate-sized floppy disks thenextweb.com/us/2019/10…
There was a point in time where the entire World Wide Web fitted on a floppy disk.
Redditors that are too young to remember/have never seen a 3.5” floppy disk, what are your views of programs' 'save button' logo?
Floppy disks have become an eternal symbol of saving, despite being obsolete for generations.
the lads and i going to space station 13 to steal a green floppy disk
Who remembers this gem? And the eight 3.5" floppy disks it came on? imgur.com/27o538d
Livejournal and myspace are the floppy disk and compact discs of social media.
I use bar soap.
Heck yeah, the latest installation floppy disks, bitches!
Has anyone got the GRE PowerPrep 3.5'' Floppy Disks? Asking for a friend.
Darn. G4 desktop not booting off the reinstall disks. I can get it to limp into OS9.1 safe mode but that’s about it. Can anyone help? It has an internal Zip drive and that’s it, no floppy or CD drive.
It's #EndangeredSpeciesDay, at least you're not extinct like the floppy disk.
Can you read text on the floppy disk?
So I am just curious how other people see in VR.
I have Rift S and on the cover of the floppy disk only thing I can read is "50 free games" and the price.
And for the text to be clear i have to read it like my dad reads, Stretch my hand half a meter in front of me. Am I farsighted in VR? haha
Im curious how well can you read it and on what headset.
Can Index or Vive pro read small text?
There's a DSA (HP 35670ADynamic Signal Analyzer) device that I need help transferring data on to the computer in a quicker way than using a floppy disk. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated! :)
Doing some late night/early morning snooping in my grandmother's basement, I find a 1541-II floppy drive, the power supply and 14 5 1/4 floppys. Including the 1541 test/demo disk and the C64C system backup disk.
I found a very good condition Y2K diagnostics floppy disk while digging through the garage.
