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I liked when they’d come on floppies. You could rewrite it after taping the hole and get a free disk.
by NegativeLatency 2y ago
I 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.