>>108560472
I still have some of them. Somewhere.

512 bit sectors

>>108560472
>Please insert diskette #7 of 12.
>Read error: Aborting installation

>>108560472
TGOD. Also, TDC.

>>108560472
I'm reminded also of the retarded kid at school who would bend the metal slider so that the disk would get stuck when you tried to eject it.

>>108560472
this picture is just an ai generated realistic version of the save icon ahh bruh

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>>108560472
windows 98 boot diskette to assist in booting from cd-rom

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>>108560578
Maniac mansion?

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a friend gave me a floppy with this shit on it
i spent hours on it

>>108560585
"hugo's house of horrors" actually. no idea why this instead of the good games from back then but that's what came to mind first

>>108560472
1-2mb avi files of porno downloaded from ultrapasswords. In particular the Pamela Anderson sex tape

>>108560599
The one in the jungle is at least somewhat ok. The other two are unplayable

>>108560603
this post makes me feel old

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Using this bad boy at school

>>108560594
>a friend gave me a floppy with this shit
for a sec I thought he drew an erotic stick figure that gave you a chub

>>108560627
I started getting called old man at 23. I am immune to age insults.

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>>108560472

Nowadays the first thing I remember is that one could write 32 megabytes on that stuff with proper equipment.

I did not know that back then though.

>click save on your Word doc
>whole computer freezes for fifteen seconds

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https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos

>>108560472
Using Mac LCs and Performas in grade school for writing book reports.
>>108560594
Ah fuck I had forgotten about Pivot.

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>>108560472
Splitting the moorhuhn exe over several floppies to take a copy back home from our school computers.

>>108560472
INSERT DISK 2
>NYEHAHAHAHAHA

>>108560472
shitty useless with too little space even at it's time

>>108560472
>hehe *flick* *flick* *flick* *flick*
kinda wonder how my dad felt seeing me format so many floppies back then

>>108560472
Kek, I used to use the same brand.

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>>108560594
pivotmasterdx was based

>>108561025
>shitty useless with too little space even at it's time
Wrong on both accounts though.
It was plenty and more than sufficient up until 1994 or so.

>>108561046
Ironic how that gif about nostalgia itself is now slowly approaching the 20 year mark

>>108560472
good riddance

>>108561081
And with 2.77 MB it wouldn't even fit on one disk.

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>>108560472
>Post the first thing that comes to mind when you see this
Why doesn't it have a label?

>>108561400
same

>>108560472
Save.

>>108560472
MS-DOS 6.22 DISK 1 of 3

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>>108560472
WOLFENSTEIN 3D

>>108560472

back in the day you could fit a decent amount of porn images on them due to the quality of them at the time that didnt require megabytes of space for one goddamn image!

>>108560472

Abort, Retry, Fail?

>>108561621
Yeah
I vividly remember how most pictures were in the 20 to 50kb ballpark

I remember doing a high school presentation, everyone used floppy disks that had read errors, while mine didn't because I knew floppy disks could fuck up beforehand so I used a CD-RW.

>>108562134
Found the teachers pet.

Our floppy disks always had "errors" because we didn't do the work.

My dad had a stash of porn on 3.5 disks. They were little exe files that ran on the IBM XT with Herc monochrome. One of them was a girl with full frontal nudity and it scrolled up and down while her tits bounced. Wish I could find it online but I gave up long ago.

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>>108562316

was it green or orange lady?

>>108562364
Why it do be like that?

>>108560472
Elementary school and fun happy times when time went slower.

>>108560472

Elf elf baby…
Elf elf baby…

>>108561046
N e v e r Obsolete!

Better times.

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>>108560472
how i used to store my passwords . this is literally my first password manager.

>>108560472
I still store Game Boy and NES roms on these things just because.

>>108560472
The floppy drive sitting on top of my PC that needs cleaning.

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>>108560472
i "salvaged" a floppy drive at work lol, and to my surprise, the thing has an alternative mini-usb in the back, so not only I could hook it up properly via SATA in the tray, but i can also use it as an external drive, sort of like what you have to do nowadays with CD drives that connect to USB.

So obviously next I connected it to my iPhone, it spins up then shuts off lol, on Windows 11, it creates an A:/ drive.

When I plug DVD/Blueray USB drive to iPhone it works perfectly fine.

Both were cool technologies, but they are super slow, floppy is practically unusable, and magnetic media, i would not put my bitcoin wallet on it lol. However, a re-writable DVD can still be useful, until recently I was adamant about using DVD to reinstall Windows because it was always less annoying and more automatic than using a USB stick, but its pretty useless now.


Blueray disks are cool though, some i think have like 50GB, but the write speeds are horrific, i think it will take a day or two to write anything.

Not ready reading drive A

>>108560799
thats crazy if true

>>108561400
why would you scan it with a scanner

>>108561400
>so concerned about wasting the few labels i had that i never ended up using any of them

>>108562381
not him but he said hercules monochrome, so what colour it was depended on what monitor you used, as the colour of monochrome displays comes from what phosphors it uses

>>108560472
my nigger younger brother put the 3.5 inch floppy into the 5.25" floppy drive
puter wouldn't boot, said invalid boot disk
I was young but figure it out somewhat
got all parts of disk out except the metal slidey bit
it was in a place that made computor think there was a disk inserted into 5 1/4"
didn't know about setting boot options n shit as i was an 8 year old or some shit
computer never worked again

>>108562919
btw i only wanted to play carmen san diego

>>108560472
Mac SE

>>108560472
Not one of them fucking worked after a few years of storage, sometimes not even after the same afternoon between using it at school and then trying to read them at home.

and 5.25" was even worse.

>>108562967
fuck yeah liero

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>>108560472
>first thing that comes to mind
Me running between our main office to our secondaries up and down Manhattan in scorching heat and blizzard colds with the daily "big ones" (news) in the late 80's and early 90's. The boss didn't trust phones and had me and two others run the info on 3.5 inch diskettes.

>>108560472
grandefdordo sayv gaym

>>108560472
high school, 1985

>>108563070
u r my dad

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>>108560472
my first PC, which is funny because I used those floppies before on an Atari ST, but on that IBM I learned everything about PCs so my guess is that's why it stuck more with that memory

>>108562884
I do this in video games all the time

>>108562851
on android it runs natively, I've used my USB drive with it

>>108562987
did you work for a newspaper?

>>108562134
>>108562284
duality of man

>>108563146
Yep

>>108560472
HoMM2, was I think around 90 disks and you just hoped the number 87 wasn't corrupted.

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>>108560472
>Post the first thing that comes to mind when you see this
That's how i imagine the person holding it.

>>108562851
>magnetic media, i would not put my bitcoin wallet on it
Same as HDD's, and not strictly inferior to electron storage (SSD's, usb sticks, SD cards)
All have the potential to fail or rot in 5 years or less.

If storing data that you cannot risk losing, optical discs are king by a mile.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulh9z-JluBs

>>108560472
Spam thread

>>108560472
the sound of ejecting one from a drive before inserting another one

the exciting and simultaneously always slightly nerve-wracking (they're not exactly known for their extreme reliability) sound of the heads ticking away as it moves between tracks and the occasional sweep across the disc while your game loads

>>108563718
>Spam thread
Do you have a singlicious satisfact to snack that up?

I had dozens of these left over from way back. Took them to the library that has a floppy drive and the only recoverable data were some nudes of Geri Halliwell and Anna Nicole Smith.

Amiga, my first computer

>>108560472
>Disk read error unable to write to disk in drive A:
>Reformat
>disk read error, unable to write to disk in drive A:
GOD DAMN IT!

>>108560472
my dumb 9 years old ass
>"wow I can fit so many games on this!"
>copies the desktop shortcuts

>>108565339
if you think that's bad, I burned shortcuts of game installers to a cdrom once

Making a boot disk for every game/demo
Fucking up and saving changes to pc instead of boot disk
My parents furious that I bricked another pc while I desperately deny it was me
Also used to copy Nesticle and SMB to these, would pass them out at school, then charged $5 for floppies with other games on them. Back then almost no one had internet or knew much about computers besides me so I made a lot of money

>>108560472
ARJ

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100 posts and noone posted this.
you are all young larping bastards

>>108560472
>click
>VRRRRRR VRRRRR VRR
>CH CH CH CH CH
>VRRRRR VRRR VRRRRR

>>108560472
Doom Shareware

>>108560472
amiga500

>>108560472
wolfenstein3d and strip tetris
(w3d sucks btw)

>>108560594
this gui is so perfect

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I got a picrel then realised, I don't have any floppy discs :(
nor even a KR-15 piano, which seems an oddly specific use case.

>>108560534
(You)

>>108560472
It's not, in fact, floppy.

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I still use mine

did they 3d print a save icon? i don't get it

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Use to carry a floppy with Wolfenstein shareware on it at all times. It would play directly from disk, so any time there was an open PC anywhere I could play without leaving a trace on the computer. Even the display PCs they’d have in store weren’t safe.

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https://youtu.be/qbdV-Vlit74

>>108560472
saving my dumb Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal programs. also >>108562661

>>108560472
Flicking that thing open repeatedly for no reason

>>108568193
>>108568398
I hate grey floppies, I Hate Grey Floppies, I HATE GREY FLOPPIES!!!!

ALL FLOPPIES SHOULD BE BLACK (or maybe fun bright colors for games), BAN GREY FLOPPIES!!!

>save some data
>leave for home
>sit too close to an electric engine on a tram
>arrive home
>data is gone

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>>108560472
How Liero barely didn't fit it

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>>108568494
forgotten tech

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>>108568525
Those days were before I even knew about WinRAR. I had this guy on one of the machines but not the other. The OS shell didn't support ZIPs natively either. I think either WinZIP didn't support that or I just didn't understand it well enough.

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Rob Northen copylock and this fucking game. I am still butthurt over it.

>>108560472
An internet cafe close to my house with an aspiring company brand
>>108563133
Beautiful

>>108568580
use case?

>>108568751
When you only have a floppy drive.

>>108568751
japs use old computers, some with floppy drives

>>108568580
That isn’t an official product.

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>>108568855
I don't believe your claim. Provide proof.

>>108568751
I believe Japan has some weird law that requires government computers be floppy compatible for some reason

>>108568855
I would ask you to verify this is not an official product.

>>108567726
>ancient floppy disc games
>sonic the hedgehog

>>108568910
you can backup your Date tho

>>108568957
kek

>>108568646
how the fuck does this look nothing like the movie

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>>108568985
>https://codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/bobby-earl/

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>>108562862
This

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This, to be honest

>>108569260
Not really. Hook is a trash movie. Even Spielberg hates it. Also, that's how Amiga games looked like in 1992.

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>>108569341
sure

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>>108569457
don't make 'em like they used to.

Installing Mario is Missing then playing it for a few minutes and doing something else.

>>108560472
saving Office files back in 3rd grade

>>108560472
bad sectors

>>108560594
fuck this thing
>everyone and their dog trying to copy stick figure fights

>>108560799
yeah because that's a zip diskette you stupid namefaggot retard

>>108560472
I use one of these as a coaster

>>108560799
You still don't know shit.

When I was a little kid, my mother gave me and my brothers a floppy disk. When I was alone I jumped on her computer and typed into word "I love Rebecca" then clicked on the floppy disk Icon, thinking that meant "save to floppy disk". But it saved to the desktop. Fucked up big time, because Rebecca was really ugly and my brothers laughed and teased me. I vowed to never love an ugly girl again which is why I am a virgin 30+ years later.

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>>108560472
Windows 95 boot floppy
>fails to load CDROM driver

>>108568470
lol

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>>108560472
An anon made this back in 2022 in response to a thread about 'What would you replace the floppy disk icons that programs use with?'
I still remember this image every time I click 'Save as...'

>>108560472
How unreliable my last batch of floppy disks were.

>>108571793
a lifebuoy isn't a terrible idea for a save icon, though it has more of a rescue/recover meaning rather than just "store"

>>108570635
I was one of them

>>108560472
Police Quest/ Thexder

>>108560533
kek.

>>108566660
No one- NO ONE- stores them upside down like that. How youbgoing to read the label? wth is wrong with you

>>108567670
It is. I program it into all my internal apps- switchable between 95 and 3.1

>>108572421
>upside down
>clearly visible "HD" icon the right way up

>>108560472
IBM

>>108572437
its a CH, kid.

>>108572437
>I store mine upside down so I have to take each out to read the label
>blank labels
>so dont need to do that
>problem solved
what the heckin, I guess youre right.

>>108572482
i do admit that it took me all too long to realise it was "HD", even though i was aware they were high density discs.

>>108571368
>when I was
good times

>>108568470
see >>108569287

I also have it.

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>>108560472
Ocean Trader (1995)

Ports of Call was better.

>>108560472
It's how we used to share code at university.

I think of an Emacs splash image i made that looks like the DOOM floppy. Modified it from the DOOM version some artist made.

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>>108571793
hahahahaha

>>108575761
>>108575978
I had to have been one of the last generations that was shown this in middle school.

Duke Nukem 3D

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>>108560472
better, more hopeful times

>>108560472
BBS

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>>108571503
wow

>>108577906
BEHAVE!

>>108560472
Shareware with my bros in middle school

>not warez

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>>108562134
>I knew floppy disks could fuck up beforehand so I used a CD-RW.
You might have been the only kid with a CD writer. I remember when kids at my school started getting computers and doing their homework on a computer, and I wanted to fit in, so I did mine on our ancient 1980s computer and brought in some work that I printed on a dot matrix printer. It had all the little circles on both edges of the huge square paper and everything. The other kids thought this was weird (it was around 1998 when I did this), but they thought I was weird anyway.

>>108578628
>not knowing its called tractor feed paper
bet youve never seen a mimeograph or real 5 1/4" floppy either
quit larping

>>108560563
my man

>>108578689
The 1980s computer I used definitely had 5.25" floppy disks. It was an Amstrad 1512 if you're wondering. I played a game called Starquake on there, but I didn't really like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_(video_game)

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>>108560472
Some classes made us bring in a floppy disk to save work, we had these Dells every where.

>>108560472
All the games we used to pirate.

>>108560472
having control over my computer and data

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>>108560472
You can move the metal part back and forth with a tchak tchak sound and it's fun.

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>>108566660
I have an ALLSOP case for my floppy disks and everytime I glance at it now It looks like it spells AISLOP.

>>108560472
don't see the point of 3D printing a save icon

>>108560472
my high school crush

>>108567726
>Date Backup
in the case your tinder cutie turns out to be a man

>>108570644

No.

Go read https://web.archive.org/web/20010605060803/http://www.qps-inc.com/products/ls240.pdf

>>108560472
>Old enough to have interacted with multiple PCs with a floppy drive
>young enough to NEVER use them for anything
Even in 98 they where a relic

a copy of wolf3d my uncle gave me when i was 7 along with my first computer

>>108560578
SOVL

>>108560472
Sneakernet winamp skins.

>>108563237
BASED. Imagine living in your gooncave catching-up on your backlog.

>>108560472
Amiga good times and a trove of old digital family photos from my deceased fathers collection we found in his loft.

When I was a kid I would go to this friend to copy games onto floppies and bring them home. I remember when I carried home like 30 floppies with Duke Nukem 3D and I was excited to play it, then when I came home disk #17 or something didn't work and I had to walk all the way back to my friend's to get data onto new floppy and all the way back home

>>108560472
Moving NES roms to and from friend's houses, with one disk always having a copy of DOS Nesticle.

>>108560472
my parent's old pentium 3 computer

>>108560472
fidgeting the metal cover

first thought
>homework (school)

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>that time i downloaded a bunch of porn off napster, dragged it all on a floppy, and deleted the originals to hide it from my parents
>take floppy to friend's house to share my score
>it's all shortcuts

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imagine the future we could have had with no high-speed (beyond 256kbps) internet, CDs or DVDs

>no bloatware -> converging to something like Windows 2000
>no shitty 3D gaming, only the best (something close to 8MB N64 games)

>no video

>text-based internet with high-resolution low-color imagery or high-color low-resolution imagery
>IRC

>books, in plaintext
>Japanese emulator games
>MIDI development beyond SC-55, no mp3 brainrot

>C++ complete at C++98
>C complete at C11

>uhh no desktop Linux, Linux stays a server OS

>>108579877
how did you pirate games back then?

>>108583112
what did you do in the sneakernet? I want to start one

>>108583187
how'd you do that :0 how'd you get the rims out of the cartridges and into a format you could put in a floppy and then emulate on a pc?

>>108584725
I don't understand what you're saying, you don't make it clear. are you saying it would've been better if we stayed with only floppy disks and low speed internet? or are you saying something else entirely?

>>108560502
I have a brand new old stock box of them.

>>108567358
I used a soldering iron.

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>>108560472
me saving darkmagician girl images and stealing snes rooms from the ciber cafe to take home

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My IT teacher in middleschool kept angrily snap folding them together and threw them in the trash in an overly DRAMATIC manner every time one of them decided to not load one of his files on first try

>>108560472
Jill of the Jungle
I am three years old
My mom tells me my uncle put a game on the disk. She installs the game, I play it, I love it. We called them "hard disks" back then. The 3.5" were "hard disks", and the 5.25" were "floppy disks".

>>108560472
Doom

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>>108560472
does anyone remember you'd go to the store with your parents and there'd be these HUGE bins of bulk discounted dos floppy disk games in the electronics section? you could literally go through all those disks for hours on end looking at random games and junk.

>>108560472
Using the iron thing to load through my rifle.

>>108560472
gaining an extra day to turn in an assignment by editing a word document using notepad to make it look like the file got corrupted

Form virus

>>108588841
thanks for the flashback

>>108588783
>>108562284
Floppy error was the computer age version of "my dog ate my homework"

>>108584725
It would be better.

probably not the right era but mavis beacon teaches typing

noises

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>>108560472
fdisk

>>108592809
Fuck you isac

that zoomers don't know what filesystems are and don't know what the "save app button" represents

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>>108560472
Work.

More maybe later.

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>>108560472
DRT DRT.. DRR DRRT.

DEEE NEE DRRT

>>108560799
Those are zip disks, not 3 and a quarter floppies. Zip disks were nuts, I had a disk reader that could do 100MB diskettes.

They were simply hamstrung by adoption. CD-ROMs were slower and CD-Rs were rarer than gold while only having 2x or 16x write speeds, but every computer at the time shipped with a CD drive, none with a zip drive, and it didn't help those things didn't adopt USB until like the mid 00s so you were forced to use shit like parallel ports.

>>108562851
shit I need to get one of these, I still have use for floppies just because I don't ned 16GB to transfer a 200 kb text file or a 1 MB word document

>>108594069
not him but you're wrong. that's a superdisk drive and while it did take it's own special format that was much larger, it could also format regular disks up to 32MB (for use in that drive of course)

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/06/history-2000-32mb-on-3-5-inch-fdd/

>>108560472
pascal

Chopping the corner off a 720k disk to enable you to format it double sided. Yes really.

>>108585929
I have no idea. I was 3-6 years old. Mom and Dad knew someone that did though. We had a bunch of diskettes(and a few 8 inch floppy disks) with my Mom's handwriting on them, telling us the game name.
Carmen Sandiego, Pharaoh's Tomb(all 4 episodes), Monuments of Mars, Hoyle's Book of Games vol 1, Win Lose or Draw. Maybe a few others that I don't remember anymore.

>>108595020
>carmen sandiego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pm5x9bDvtQ

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I think about this little blurb on Wikipedia

I've never looked into it, but I quite like the idea

screeching stepper motor and everything freezing

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>>108578628
>You might have been the only kid with a CD writer.
What?
And dot matrix printers would've been old in 98 but not completely unheard of yet.
>>108582706
I graduated high school in 98 and they were still commonly used to transfer documents and things like that. Not everyone had writeable CD yet and the usb "thumb" drivers weren't really out or accessible yet.
>>108595438
>floppy and stiffy
I like it.

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>>108560472
i had a picture of a lady's butt on one in 6th grade and i kept it in my dresser and would pop it in the family computer to jack off when i was home alone.

>>108560472
Verbatim

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>>108560472
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rYWy_7y1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34JrmhKxuQ

>>108597690
i'll always find it funny how this game got criticism for being pro-war despite being one of the few war games that has a strong and rather obvious anti-war message.
i'm too young for this game and never owned an amiga, but interested in older machines/games to know enough about this game to understand how powerful that boot hill screen is. from the satirical trivialisation of war with the use of "home/away", the endless supply of young men ready to be blown away to the hill slowly being filled with the graves of the men you've gotten killed during gameplay.

>>108560472
Countless hours of my life lost because of bad sectors.

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>>108594996
i used to do that too, i can't remember exactly but you use a hole puncher somewhere on the side in the middle to match the other side of the disk

>>108560472
bad blocks, a bunch of 'em

>>108560472
blue floppy

>>108582706
>Even in 98 they where a relic
Nah, they were still being used in the 1990's. Up until like 2002-2003 when CD-R/RW's became cheap enough to supersede them for backups and transfers.

Somebody 3d printed the save icon

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>>108600467
>Somebody 3d printed the save icon

oh look.. another idiot made this joke. wow you are something special

>>108600988
but they did

>>108560472
Don't copy that

>>108560472
DOS boot disk to load soundcard, CD, mouse and network card drivers

>>108578800
Until the capacitors popped.

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>>108601386

i miss getting those floppy disks from AOL and loading them with midis to share with my friends

>>108602988
>>108578800
I've seen these in use at a community college up until ~2018 at least as "thin" clients

>>108601386
Monstrously unfathomably mindboggingly giga based

school essay due

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>>108603387
i remember people playing world of warcraft on them
slap a radeon 9200 in there and oh yea, it's poorfag gaming time

>>108560472
Gen Alpha: Oh look, he 3D printed a real life save icon!

>>108560472
>Be me
>Be 14 or something
>Friend from school came over with a game on a floppy
>Put it into computer
>Computer: "Format Disk? Y/N"
>Neither of us know what format means
>idk, Y?
>Game didn't work.
>Friend went home

>>108560534
>>108568207
>>108580725
>>108600467
>>108607019
based!

>>108607063
i remember being disappointed my dos game floppies didn't work on my schools' acorn machines

>>108560472
me going over to my buddy bahama johns house to download sims mods onto 20 floppys because he had internet and i didnt.

>>108560472
You 3D printed the save icon!

>>108595741
IMAGINE THE SOUND

>>108560472
BUZZ

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>>108568207
>>108580725
>>108600467
>>108607019
>>108609047

>>108560472
Ca-chunk!
The satisfying feeling of inserting and ejecting the diskette

>>108560472
An obscure Robin Hood dungeon crawler/rpg we got to test in junior school. The year would have been around 1992ish. Might not be ribin hood but I remember having to navigate a forest and solve puzzles. Never able to find it since. Wish I could for early childhood nostalgia

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>>108610516
Or the Crystal Rainforest.

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>>108560472
erectile dysfunction

>>108560472
floppy

>>108560472
Ghey

>>108560472
unc

>>108560472
people were so much more efficient back then. Modern developers should be forced to fit everything into tiny limited storage. I hate how so many apps and games require GBs

>>108560472
Bent, mangled or corrupted disks. I work with these currently and the years were not kind to them.

>>108560472
What comes to mind is a classmate who said "floppies are so obsolete, but they still LOOK futuristic". And I still agree, they have a cyberpunk aesthetic.

as a kid, one guy was selling them with pokemon silver ROM and the emulator, he even print the pokemon covers and stick on them. fist time I play pokemon and also emulation, friends don't believe me I can play on pc.

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>>108566263
TELL EM LARJ .ARJ SENT YA

ARH? For me it was LHA.

>>108560472
I miss being young. Im so sad. I want to go home.

>>108614298
You can return, but no one else is there :)

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>>108560472
Hugo

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>>108560472
mature women

>>108560472
1-bit porn

>>108560472
not much since they were mostly irrelevant for storage when I was a kid.
I remember using them to take word docs to school a few times, and when I was a poor high schooler with no internet and no flash drives I would save web pages to floppies to bring home