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Somewhere in my parents' house there is a massive box with floppies for office 95 (or whatever it was called back then). Not 40 floppies massive, but still a la
by beAbU 2y ago
Somewhere in my parents' house there is a massive box with floppies for office 95 (or whatever it was called back then). Not 40 floppies massive, but still a large number.
I think we managed to only ever install it once successfully without error.
Also, fun semi-related fact: In my country we called 8" and 5.25" floppies "floppies", and the smaller 3.5" ones were called "stiffies" - because the larger ones were floppy, and the smaller were, well, stiffer. Do with this information as you please.
- exe34 2y agoi need to know which country this is, please!
- cyberpunk 2y agoCertainly not the UK where inserting your stiffie in to something has rather a different connotation….
- teschmitt 2y agoI'm going to wager South Africa based on this blog post: https://jasonelk.com/2015/12/who-knew-that-the-rest-of-the-world-didnt-call-the-old-3-5-inch-floppy-disks-stiffies/ https://jasonelk.com/2015/12/who-knew-that-the-rest-of-the-w...
- obrix 2y agoHappened also in Finland. It was "lerppu" (floppy) for the flexible ones and "korppu" (hard biscuit) for the hard ones.
- beAbU 2y agoSouth Africa!