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Is there a pack of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, Shaw etc CDs as coasters one can buy nowadays? There must be an Atari E.T.-scale landfill of them somewhere. Asking
by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Is there a pack of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, Shaw etc CDs as coasters one can buy nowadays? There must be an Atari E.T.-scale landfill of them somewhere. Asking for a friend.
- NegativeLatency 2y agoI liked when they’d come on floppies. You could rewrite it after taping the hole and get a free disk.
- op00to 2y agoWhen I was a kid, I called up AOL and asked them for 1,000 floppy kits. For Reasons. They never questioned me, and they were fairly reliable and I never really had to buy disks again.
- acheron 2y agoSimilar story here.. At one point Intuit would send you a demo of Quickbooks on 7 or so floppies, so a friend called up and requested X demos and we split up the resulting disks. I was still saving college papers and projects on old Quickbooks disks many years later.
- jll29 2y agoFor 5 1/4" disks, you could double capacity by using a punch to cut a whole into one border and then use the back side - et viola, from 140 kB to 2x 140 kB. But you had better not punch into the actual magnetic floppy disk inside its plastic enclosure, or you may have killed the whole thing.
- fecal_henge 2y agoI remember (AOL I think) you could request trial CDs delivered to any address. No checks were made on either the name of the recipient or about the quantity of disks ordered. I'm guessing I was about 14.
- devmor 2y agoYep! I did the same thing - ordered enough of them to keep my relatively destitute family online without paying an internet bill. Dad had to pay for a phone bill, but we got internet on top of that free of charge thanks to AOL. And of course, whenever we were done with one of the CDs it got taped to my bedroom ceiling, reflective side down.
- fecal_henge 2y agoThats a productive use but we ordered hundreds of cds to people we knew with profanities in the name fields.