Subj : Article on the last flopp
To   : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Mon Sep 19 2022 11:11 pm

  Re: Article on the last flopp
  By: MRO to Boraxman on Mon Sep 19 2022 03:05 pm

 >   Re: Article on the last flopp
 >   By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
 > 
 >  > Quite interesting!  I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks.  Still h
 >  > quite a few floppy drives.
 >  >
 >  > As slow as they were, I do miss them a little.  There is a joy in the
 >  > tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing
 >  > the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to form
 >  > it to different capacities.
 > 
 > i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
 > bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS

When I got some old pc's out to try and connect to the internet with them, I
realized how many disks I have that went bad.  I had them stacked in piles in 
a box that was placed in a closet where there were extreme  changes in
temperature during the seasons.

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