Subj : Article on the last flopp
To   : Moondog
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Sep 20 2022 05:01 pm

  Re: Article on the last flopp
  By: Moondog to MRO on 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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Those floppies were so fragile that you could store them properly and still have them
go to waste.

I lost some good games to data erosion on those ones. Good thing you can still get
them elsewhere.

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