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Hey, that is also a great reminder to me. Thanks, Pete! I have a lot of these floppy disks full with data i need to save for the future. Now i got remembered to re-activate my old Commodore PC-40 to do this job. xx Michael
When I was young, a floppy disk was a thing to cherish and wonder at. I remember touching my first floppy disk at school when I was 13…I was so scred and sure I will break it. My school housed five computers then, which was considered VERY posh at the time. Now, it is no big deal.
Computers didn’t exist when I was at school, and as I didn’t get my first laptop until 2002, I never actually used a floppy disk, Shaily.
Best wishes, Pete.
Funny thing is these so-called floppies were in hard cases, the true floppies are the 5¼-inch disks. My first computer (1991) had twin 3½-inch drives and a 20 MB hard disk with 4mg RAM. I could do most things on that computer including playing games. Took a long time to transfer data from an old PC to a new one though. (My computer degree course was 1988 – 1992 so I remember all this well).
In my first job at a computer company I was given around 30 disks and a computer and told to load windows 3.1 ! That’s was a tough learning curve, solved over lunch time drinks at the local pub with pint diplomacy 🙂 I still have a couple of 3.5inch floppy drives in my computer bits box, just in case 🙂
(1) Advice to Myron of Eleutherae: “Whatever you do, make sure he’s not throwing a floppy disk!”
(2) My doctor says that a floppy disk is better than a herniated disk.
(3) An old man who lives on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, claims to have found a large broken disk back in 1947. But he never provided any information on that disk. (“If I ever wrote a book about that disk, it’d surely be a flop!”)
Daft thing they were rigid. The early floppy disks were a bit bendy. I remember transferring from the old style to the new ones – took ages – download onto pc then copy to new disk and label all over again. Then we moved on to flat silver disks and now these are fast becoming obsolete.
I did use them at work and for my stories, but they got easily corrupted. One of my bosses had an old-style computer in my last job and still had floppy disks, but her was the only computer that did when I changed jobs, and not any longer by the time I left. I found some while packing my house, but I gave them away…
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Hey, that is also a great reminder to me. Thanks, Pete! I have a lot of these floppy disks full with data i need to save for the future. Now i got remembered to re-activate my old Commodore PC-40 to do this job. xx Michael
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I hope you can still access them, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think I still have floppy discs around somewhere. They are not needed.
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I never used them. My first laptop had a CD drive instead.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ahh, I remember those! Then it went to USB sticks. Now it’s the cloud. What’s next?
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I never used any floppy disks.
I didn’t get my first laptop until 2002, so went straight to CD drive.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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When I was young, a floppy disk was a thing to cherish and wonder at. I remember touching my first floppy disk at school when I was 13…I was so scred and sure I will break it. My school housed five computers then, which was considered VERY posh at the time. Now, it is no big deal.
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Computers didn’t exist when I was at school, and as I didn’t get my first laptop until 2002, I never actually used a floppy disk, Shaily.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Funny thing is these so-called floppies were in hard cases, the true floppies are the 5¼-inch disks. My first computer (1991) had twin 3½-inch drives and a 20 MB hard disk with 4mg RAM. I could do most things on that computer including playing games. Took a long time to transfer data from an old PC to a new one though. (My computer degree course was 1988 – 1992 so I remember all this well).
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I didn’t have a laptop until 2002, Jude. So I never used a floppy disk.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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The real problem is finding a floppy disc drive (for that one and the earlier version) Warmest regards, Theo
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I was lucky by going straight to CD drive, Theo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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In my first job at a computer company I was given around 30 disks and a computer and told to load windows 3.1 ! That’s was a tough learning curve, solved over lunch time drinks at the local pub with pint diplomacy 🙂 I still have a couple of 3.5inch floppy drives in my computer bits box, just in case 🙂
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I never had to use them at all, thankfully.
Cheers, Pete.
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At work they had floppies but I never used one myself.
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Me neither, Carolyn. I went straight to a CD drive, in 2002.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Okay, floppy discs are obsolete. These were before our time.
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Before my (computer time) too, Robbie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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For that I am glad….it is so much easier to store stuff now. Will not miss them. chuq
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I never had occasion to use them, chuq. I didn’t get a laptop until 2002. I have only been online for 20 years.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That is how I use to save my work….I had an old Tandy laptop in 1990….old and heavy…LOL chuq
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(1) Advice to Myron of Eleutherae: “Whatever you do, make sure he’s not throwing a floppy disk!”
(2) My doctor says that a floppy disk is better than a herniated disk.
(3) An old man who lives on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, claims to have found a large broken disk back in 1947. But he never provided any information on that disk. (“If I ever wrote a book about that disk, it’d surely be a flop!”)
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OUCH! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have tons of these. I put so much data on them, I can’t bear to throw them out, even though I can’t access the data.
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I never used them. Liz. I went straight to CD on my first laptop.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I got my first computer in 1995. It took hours to install Windows 3.1 from about a dozen floppies.
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Oh, yes, I remember these in the 1990s I think.
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I saw them around, but never had occasion to use one.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ah, floppies! My first pc used those, then we had CDs and now memory sticks, external hard drives. What next?
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I didn’t get a laptop until 2002, so went straight to a CD drive. I have seen floppies, but never used one.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Daft thing they were rigid. The early floppy disks were a bit bendy. I remember transferring from the old style to the new ones – took ages – download onto pc then copy to new disk and label all over again. Then we moved on to flat silver disks and now these are fast becoming obsolete.
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I went straight to a CD drive for copying. I have never used a Floppy Disk, Lucinda. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I did use them at work and for my stories, but they got easily corrupted. One of my bosses had an old-style computer in my last job and still had floppy disks, but her was the only computer that did when I changed jobs, and not any longer by the time I left. I found some while packing my house, but I gave them away…
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I have never used them, Olga. I didn’t get my first laptop until 2002, and they were out of general use by then.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep, obsolete and then some!
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I never even used one, and I’m old! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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