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Box of floppies on many disks. They were so common. I had many of them. Floppies were a very stubborn technology. They wouldn't die as much as I wished them
by cheema33 3y ago
Box of floppies on many disks. They were so common. I had many of them. Floppies were a very stubborn technology. They wouldn't die as much as I wished them to. And for the longest time, they were the only way to flash BIOS on many systems.
Floppies, CDs, DVDs, PCMCIA cards, modems, CGA cards, MFM controllers, mechanical mice, ISA bus, parallel port, internal combustion engine... Things I used a lot. But do not miss at all. Good riddance.
- ralphc 3y agoMy first programming job, 1984, I had a two-floppy PC clone. The source code was in drive B. I put the editor floppy in drive A, wrote code, then put the compiler floppy in drive A, compiled code, if no errors then I put the linker floppy in drive A to link into an executable.
- pixl97 3y agoGod floppies were the worst. When you're on disk 18 of 20 and you get a bad sector... good times. Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice balls because to much crust was building up inside them. As many complaints as I have about wireless and bluetooth they are still far more reliable than most of that 80s-start of 2000 stuff unless it was eye wateringly expensive equipment.
- baz00 3y agoGah I remember that. When I was first playing around with Linux at home I didn't have an Internet connection and the only way I could get it was relaying floppies back and forward from the university campus. This was about a mile walk from home. Of course I learned to verify the floppies very quickly after the first round trip back to the campus with a duff one. Also there was a pub half way which was a serious latency issue. I'd used floppies for years before and they were probably all half duff but I'd never noticed.
- jacquesm 3y ago> Also there was a pub half way which was a serious latency issue. Well, at least the packets got forwarded eventually.
- baz00 3y agoOn at least one occasion they got left in the pub!
- jacquesm 3y agoThat makes it even funnier! I once bought an ex undercover police vehicle that came with a folder that somehow had been forgotten under the passenger seat. Contents: a bunch of (paper) files, an identikit and a manual on how to take fingerprints. I think you had the better excuse.
- ourmandave 3y agoSneaker net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThe internet usage that keeps you in shape
- climb_stealth 3y ago> Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice balls because to much crust was building up inside them. To me it always felt like a mouse with a clean ball was more responsive and accurate than a laser mouse. Especially in competitive gaming in the early 2000s. Not sure if that was just imagined on my part though. Part of me still thinks it's better. There's just something about the mechanical nature of the ball mouse. It felt like a precision instrument that had be cared for. A laser mouse in comparison has always been a bit gimmicky. Even though technically a modern laser mouse surely has way higher sample rates.
- skipkey 3y agoFor me it wasn’t usually the balls, but the rollers that got all gunky. I kept a dental pick around to quickly clean them.
- grecy 3y agoYour list there is very interesting to me.. sometime I daydream about what else in our society will be on the list in the next 20 years.