Floppy Disk - Who remembers these?

I came across a interesting and short article that recounts the history of the Floppy Disk, thought it may be of interest to someone out there, especially if they can remember 1971..........yes folks that's how old the floppy disk is. Who invented it? how did it progress to present day?

To find out more go to:Floppy Disk History :blink:

It's very easy for me to remember since I still have a 1.44MB 3 1/2 one in my 2003 circa WinXP Pro system. I rarely use it though.

They're also very flammable, so I don't recommend anyone using fire to destroy them as you could very easily have an out of control fire in a heartbeat.

Nice find Tas. Remember Iomega Zip drives? Giant leap forward. :P

Remember Iomega Zip drives?

I had a 100MB one of those in my old Win98 computer. I thought that drive was awesome and used it up until it went kaput.

Nice link here about floppies.

The car is for Andavari :lol:

http://www.greenecoservices.com/20-ways-to-reuse-floppy-discs/

Nice link here about floppies.

The car is for Andavari :lol:

http://www.greenecoservices.com/20-ways-to-reuse-floppy-discs/

Good one Hazelnut, wish I had seen this before "chucking" out a great heap of floppy's...........Hey I just found I still have 4 x 1.33MB disks, now I know what to do with them. There are some great suggestion tabled there.

I also found in the bottom of the drawer one FUjiTSU 640MB MO disk (magneto optical) and several PC 100MB ZIP disks...........I best not look down in my shed, goodness knows what I will find......I know there's a SCSI CD ROM Drive and 2 Adaptec SCSI cards there. :o

I dug into my stash and found approx 75 never used, high density floppies.

What should I do with them? Donate to a computer museum? :lol:

What should I do with them? Donate to a computer museum? :lol:

Since this is supposedly the last year they'll be made you could sell them online, someone is bound to need them.

Good one Hazelnut, wish I had seen this before "chucking" out a great heap of floppy's...........Hey I just found I still have 4 x 1.33MB disks, now I know what to do with them. There are some great suggestion tabled there.

I also found in the bottom of the drawer one FUjiTSU 640MB MO disk (magneto optical) and several PC 100MB ZIP disks...........I best not look down in my shed, goodness knows what I will find......I know there's a SCSI CD ROM Drive and 2 Adaptec SCSI cards there. :o

I just recycled a ZIP Drive and a bunch of ZIP discs last year.. along with a Tape Deck and many 2GB tapes :unsure:

sigh. . . I remember when a computer was a floppy disc . . . insert OS disc start computer os loads to (infinitesimal) local RAM eject disc insert program disc type LOAD monstermash play game

I still have a box full of 5 1/4" floppy disks, I somehow doubt they're sellable. :)

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Anyone remember the old days when AOL would send their bloody CDs in the post every month??

They made really good coffee / beers mats. :D

Richard S.

HA RedHawk, I actually have a "Hippy Curtain" made out of old AOL CDs

I used an AOL CD for a model rocket base.

The rocket shot all the sand from the metal container, & burned a hole straight through the CD.

Cool after effect, I guess.

inb4 corona drops the 'what made you pick that name' line again :lol:

HEHEHEHEHE....I still have NEW 5.25" 360 and HD floppies, 3.5" 720 & 1.44 disks, a notcher to turn 360 to HD, a tool to drill out the extra hole to convert 720k to 1.44mg.....wait there's more.......I bet no one has this......a 5.25"/3.5" combo floppy drive. :lol: I would eventually like to make the combo drive to work via USB so I can archive the floppies. :P

Makes me wonder.... If you get a newer external USB floppy drive, will Windows 7 recognize it as a drive ready for "ready boost"?

The thought of it is so funny! I mean, I know performance would drastically decrease.

Anyone tried it yet?

Makes me wonder.... If you get a newer external USB floppy drive, will Windows 7 recognize it as a drive ready for "ready boost"?

The thought of it is so funny! I mean, I know performance would drastically decrease.

Try to prefetch stuff on it: /prefetch :lol:

I still regularly use my Apple II+ .. it has 5.25" disks that hold 143K bytes each.

Because typing and saving "the" makes it feel like it was all worth the effort.

Since this is supposedly the last year they'll be made you could sell them online, someone is bound to need them.

I'd hold on to it man.

30 years from now, they will be antique, & you could be a millionaire! Hahaha