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Knowing the answer and feeling somewhat nostalgic about it makes me feel old!

• deleted 16y ago
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• mootothemax 16y ago
  and feeling somewhat nostalgic about it And then remembering taking forever to save anything on a school computer, only for the floppy to read half the file and die when I got home. It's amazing - maybe it was the crappy quality of floppies I was using, or maybe I was using them for too long, but for me, regularly not being able to read data back off a floppy was a fact of life. Times have definitely changed for the better :)
  • danielh 16y ago
    Norton Disk Doctor to the rescue! Even if it couldn't save the data, you could reuse the floppy. They were expensive at the time. Out of curiosity, I just googled for prices and it seems prices stayed about the same since I bought the last pack.
    • mootothemax 16y ago
      Norton Disk Doctor to the rescue! Even if it couldn't save the data, you could reuse the floppy. Not only reuse but be pleasantly surprised yet irritated at the same time because suddenly the disk was magically usable again!
• gawker 16y ago
  You can say that again. Reminds me of having to reinstall Windows 95 and swapping out 13-ish floppy disks. The good old days!