ericcch98
18356
80
3
I got 8, 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies!
Floppy and MO disk
Size comparison
Old disks
May 7, 2023 4:56 AM
ericcch98
18356
80
3
I got 8, 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies!
Floppy and MO disk
Size comparison
Old disks
HellsHegemony
Need a worm disk
VikingHobbit
Ah, the memory of installing big games/applications from 32 disks, only to hear the read error on disk 31 and getting the good old "CRC 32 Cyclic Redundancy Check" error after one hour of installing and disk-swapping
fractalsphere
Those look remarkably clean and unused.
StuartCartoonVillain
I remember installing OS/2 from over 40 floppy disks. My computer was under my desk and I would just reach down, push the eject button and put the next one in. It was when I got to about disk 38 that I realised I’d pushed the power button instead of eject, I had to stay leaning over the side of my chair with my finger on it to keep it powered up whilst swapping the other disks out with my left hand to finish the install.
Nnoodles
MoralRectifier
Thanks for these unsolicited disk pics
Calicoastin818
I miss my LS-120
theInternetismyplayground
That’s a lot of memories right there!
bladderinfection
I used a Zip Disk on Fridays to bring home the porn I downloaded over the week at work. I had to take the whole drive home, I didn’t have one myself. Every few weeks I’d burn a CD for the other guys in the Tandy computer repair shop.
UnitConversionBot
3.5 inch ≈ 8.89 centimetres
VikingHobbit
Ah, the memory of installing big games/applications from 32 disks, only to hear the read error on disk 31 and getting the good old "CRC 32 Cyclic Redundancy Check" error after one hour of installing and disk-swapping
NoIWillNotFixYourComputerWhenIComeOverForDinner
The older we get, the more floppy they are.
ILiekToCookAndBake
There's a pill for that
tooomanystevesgotbanned
TIL that 8-inch floppy disks existed.
x3mxs
We need micro SD card for size ... Or banana!
OrkenMork
You need a Zip disk and a Click disk to complete your colleciton
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
Also SyQuest
sochilln
Never forget 📼 💾
FatX
Wow, you 3d printed the save button!
Whatswrongwiththispicture
What, no Zip drive disks?
Tumescentpie
Mine isn't 8" when it is floppy.
GoodGuyGonzo
Most hard dicks are 3.5"
onetimepost9
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
mirrorz
ZipDisks and Jaz drives were the perfect way to instantly lose all your data. Somehow regular floppies were more reliable.
keys79
We were required to have ZipDisks when I was in college (in a graphic design program). Those things were were freaking expensive. I still have one somewhere with my 20+ year old college work on it lol.
mirrorz
Me too except I lost all of my work because they would corrupt seconds after transferring my projects from the school computer to them. Get home and the disk was either blank or unreadable. There was a shared Jaz drive, zip drives on all the machines.