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"best frisbees" - in their envelopes, or opened up?

• Zenst 7y ago
  By envelope I take it you mean the jacket the discs are in and the part you put into the drive and not the envelope paper protective sleeve you put the discs in when not in use. But yes, the discs as you would put into the computer made greate frisbee's, if you took them out of the protective jacket, they lacked the rigidness (least the ones I played with). I never did a test with a 8" and a 5.25" disc in the open, but from vauge memory recolation, the 8" discs could make about twice the distance. My personal favorite was punched cards made into simple paper plane with bent over nose to allow it to be catapulted via elestic bands. Add a paper clip or two and they traveled very far and with great force that with two paper clips at 3 meters, you could go thru the side of a coke can. Never made one that made it all the way thru and you also needed somebody prepared to hold the coke can (though had no accidents - lucky). But was pretty dangerous. Though did recall a nice cut above the eye from a 5.25" frisbee net in the office as the corners of discs at speed are not conducive towards human flesh. These days, none of these things happen as much as they used to on the grounds of HR and health and safety being more vigilant and prominent. Though 3.5" floppy discs proved safe, as any impact upon a hardish surface often saw the disc fall foul more than the target.