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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm too young for floppies, never used em

I will however be personally offended if they change the universal save icon

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best part about them was the sound. Like, you knew your machine was doing something when it was writing to a floppy, there was that mechanical sound.

For your listening pleasure: https://youtu.be/ZnFQZa8SKP8

[–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was this guy who made music using floppies and other old stuff. Pretty cool.

Edit: I think I meant this other guy, but the first one's good too.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Wow that Floppotron is something else! 8bit Symphonic orchestra vibes.

I love these kinds of whacky music machines, I'm sure you've seen this one before: https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q

[–] Antik@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You should check out zip disks. Floppies could only hold 1.5 mb of data, but zip disks started out at 100 mb and ended up being able to hold upwards of 650 mb.

Only the cool kids had those (lol), but they don't get a whole lot of recognition.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Click.

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[–] Seraph089@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

If you want some really wild old storage tech, a normal VHS cassette could hold 3-5gb of data. But we didn't have any use for that much storage at the time, and CDs were taking over by the time we did, so nobody bought the VHS storage hardware.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those were floppies, too! The storage medium was a flexible magnetic film, same as floppies and unlike the rigid platters found in hard disk drives.

SyQuest competed with the ZIP drive with its EZ Drive, which used a lone hard-disk platter in a removable plastic cartridge as its storage medium.

Both drives suffered from various mechanical problems, high cost of storage media, and low storage capacity, and were ultimately outcompeted by optical discs, which have in turn been replaced by USB flash memory cards (although optical discs are still useful when you need to receive some bytes from someone you don't trust not to destroy your computer).

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

My dad was a cool kid, who would have thought?

[–] Declamatie@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when physical save buttons were a thing

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As in the β€œrecord” button on a tape deck?

[–] Declamatie@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I just meant floppies ;)