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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