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I still remember the feeling it gave me as a kid to buy a box of 10 3.5" floppies. That was, like, fifteen whole megabytes of storage! Right in the palm of my h

I still remember the feeling it gave me as a kid to buy a box of 10 3.5" floppies. That was, like, fifteen whole megabytes of storage! Right in the palm of my hand! Jeez, I'm old.

rolph 7y ago
i remember the wow what am i gonna do with all that storage feeling ! and the way we used them as currency too...
kleer001 7y ago
I feel ya. Back in grade school I had a cherished pile of 5.25″ Apple ][ floppies that I kept games and art on. However, it's for the best. The old must make way for the new.
drblast 7y ago
You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...
- LocalH 7y ago
  I was apparently fancy, I was given a notcher when I got my C128 as a kid :P
- emanuensis 7y ago
  Eh, i skipped the whole 5" era - i guess i saw them as too fragile. i developed and wrote my dissertation on 8"ers (mostly the "newer" ones with a capacity of 1MB). But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I/O and used its tape punch (by holding the tape still) to edit snippets. Of course earlier i used to play sonnets on an IBM 1620 (which was free for use after midnight) with sorted decks of Holleriths. To edit them i would use the adjacent keypunch (also holding to edit).
- CydeWeys 7y ago
  Hah. I remember using 5.25" floppies (just barely), but I was quite young at the time. This was really something you could do? The back surface of the floppy was inaccessible, but was still usable despite not intentionally being so? That reminds me of this, except real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc
ASalazarMX 7y ago
Fine, brag about your fancy HD diskettes. You must be rich.
- smacktoward 7y ago
  You can always tell when I pass, I'm the guy driving the Lambo throwing 3.5" disks out the window
jotm 7y ago
How about 32 floppy drives (now that used to cost a small fortune!) playing Daft Punk- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIZp2HXHr0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIZp2HXHr0
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  Way fewer drives, but my favorite song-played-by-floppy-drives is this rendition of the Athletic Theme from Yoshi's island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fqxKwVSJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fqxKwVSJM It sounds so good! Like, aside from the fact that they're floppy drives, I actually objectively like the sound of this.
rodgerd 7y ago
Old is remembering when storage was audiocassettes.
- deleted 7y ago
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- erik_seaberg 7y ago
  First you had to type pages of hex from a magazine, then you could try to record it onto a cassette. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program
  - rodgerd 7y ago
    Yep. I remember the joys of Usborne's programming books, where you'd have variants of the same program for the different flavors of home computer.
berbec 7y ago
My install of OS/2 Warp failed due to a bad floppy. Disc #33, of course........

I still remember the feeling it gave me as a kid to buy a box of 10 3.5" floppies. That was, like, fifteen whole megabytes of storage! Right in the palm of my hand! Jeez, I'm old.

rolph 7y ago

i remember the wow what am i gonna do with all that storage feeling ! and the way we used them as currency too...

kleer001 7y ago

I feel ya. Back in grade school I had a cherished pile of 5.25″ Apple ][ floppies that I kept games and art on. However, it's for the best. The old must make way for the new.

drblast 7y ago

You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...

LocalH 7y ago
I was apparently fancy, I was given a notcher when I got my C128 as a kid :P
emanuensis 7y ago
Eh, i skipped the whole 5" era - i guess i saw them as too fragile. i developed and wrote my dissertation on 8"ers (mostly the "newer" ones with a capacity of 1MB). But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I/O and used its tape punch (by holding the tape still) to edit snippets. Of course earlier i used to play sonnets on an IBM 1620 (which was free for use after midnight) with sorted decks of Holleriths. To edit them i would use the adjacent keypunch (also holding to edit).
CydeWeys 7y ago
Hah. I remember using 5.25" floppies (just barely), but I was quite young at the time. This was really something you could do? The back surface of the floppy was inaccessible, but was still usable despite not intentionally being so? That reminds me of this, except real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc

ASalazarMX 7y ago

Fine, brag about your fancy HD diskettes. You must be rich.

smacktoward 7y ago
You can always tell when I pass, I'm the guy driving the Lambo throwing 3.5" disks out the window

jotm 7y ago

How about 32 floppy drives (now that used to cost a small fortune!) playing Daft Punk- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIZp2HXHr0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIZp2HXHr0

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Way fewer drives, but my favorite song-played-by-floppy-drives is this rendition of the Athletic Theme from Yoshi's island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fqxKwVSJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fqxKwVSJM It sounds so good! Like, aside from the fact that they're floppy drives, I actually objectively like the sound of this.

rodgerd 7y ago

Old is remembering when storage was audiocassettes.

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erik_seaberg 7y ago
First you had to type pages of hex from a magazine, then you could try to record it onto a cassette. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program
- rodgerd 7y ago
  Yep. I remember the joys of Usborne's programming books, where you'd have variants of the same program for the different flavors of home computer.

berbec 7y ago

My install of OS/2 Warp failed due to a bad floppy. Disc #33, of course........