Floppy Disks

Do you still have or use floppy disks?



I have a whole box of 3.5 floppies from back in the days of my first computer, but of course no PC made in the last decade has a floppy drive....so they sit collecting dust.

I've got a couple laying around but they haven't been used since I don't know when.

I took everything I had saved on them and put it on CD. I still have a Dell tower with a floppy drive but finally threw out all the floppies after running a strong magnet over them.

Besides having limited memory they failed quite often and would not open so it wasn't too reliable for storage.

I still use them, yes.

LOL. Nah.

you call THAT a floppy??? THAT is not a floppy.... THIS is a floppy



Floppy_disk_5.25_inch by rainydal74, on Flickr


This was the drive, and my first computer along with the CASSETTE TAPE that we had before the floppy drives lol They were my Christmas of 1981 presents... and I still have them in the closet and they STILL work! lol I eventually got a C=64 and that had a word processor.. pretty advanced for the times

th_datassette_glosonic_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr
th_diskdrive_vc1540_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr

th_computer_vic20_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr

Nope got rid of all them a long long time ago. I didn't use them that much anyway because from what I remember the capacity of them wasn't that big.

wants2laugh wrote:you call THAT a floppy??? THAT is not a floppy.... THIS is a floppy



Floppy_disk_5.25_inch by rainydal74, on Flickr


This was the drive, and my first computer along with the CASSETTE TAPE that we had before the floppy drives lol They were my Christmas of 1981 presents... and I still have them in the closet and they STILL work! lol I eventually got a C=64 and that had a word processor.. pretty advanced for the times

th_datassette_glosonic_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr
th_diskdrive_vc1540_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr

th_computer_vic20_01 by rainydal74, on Flickr

My father had a Commodore computer that used audio cassettes to save data. You talking old school. This was a computer from the late 70's and early 80's. Before Apple.

No I transferred all the data I had on those things that I wanted to keep to my zip drive and then later to CD-Rom. 3.5's were a joke and I used to have a computer with a malfunctioning A: Drive that would randomly erase disks. Glad they became obsolete, everything about them was limited and unreliable.

Haven't seen an actual floppy disk since I was in grade school.

W2L, you are obsessed with size, aren't you?

Floppy's were about four computers ago for me. I haven't used one since around 2000. That was when I was in college, so most of what went on them was just school-related anyway. In the garbage they went.