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I grew up in the CD era but I still had to use floppy disks for things like school assignments, because disks were far worse for that - burned once, disk lost.
by kace91 6y ago
I grew up in the CD era but I still had to use floppy disks for things like school assignments, because disks were far worse for that - burned once, disk lost. Rewritable disks were more expensive, failed like crazy and took a lot of time to burn anyway.
I remember that time as particularly annoying. It was a God send to see usb sticks become mainstream, and since everyone had mp3 players on them it meant that you were always carrying a USB stick with you (except for the poor souls that had ipods, who couldn't treat the storage as a folder for random files and had to use iTunes instead ).
- johnzim 6y agoYou definitely could do that to my recollection, I remember doing so to ferry files around. Here's an apple support doc showing how: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201544 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201544
- silly-silly 6y agoThis was not a viable option pre 6th gen.
- LukeShu 6y agoIt was if you ran ipodlinux instead of the stock OS!
- silly-silly 6y agoI had forgotten about this, thanks for the reminder :)
- uncle_dickie 6y agoFrom firsthand experience? I think my 2003 iPod w/ Dock Connector can still boot to Disk Mode.