Floppy disks are fun and I'm sad they disappeared instead of being improved. Both ZIP drives and LS-120 (most interesting since backwards compatible), even ED floppy disk (2.88MB) never saw wide distribution.
I've recently started using standard 3.5" HD floppies again for my newly obtained Mavica MVC-FD91.
A fun thing is trying to squeeze as much data on a given floppy disk as possible. Together with ED floppies this puts an end to the never ending joke "not even a single song fits on a floppy disk" with some stupid picture of a stack of diskettes saying "1/5", "2/5"…
A HD capable 5.25" drive can format 360KB DD disks with 80 tracks to 720KB or even further. The DOS program 2M can get about ≈2 million bytes on a 3.5" HD disk.
Floppotron on YouTube is worth listening!
I've recently started using standard 3.5" HD floppies again for my newly obtained Mavica MVC-FD91.
A fun thing is trying to squeeze as much data on a given floppy disk as possible. Together with ED floppies this puts an end to the never ending joke "not even a single song fits on a floppy disk" with some stupid picture of a stack of diskettes saying "1/5", "2/5"…
A HD capable 5.25" drive can format 360KB DD disks with 80 tracks to 720KB or even further. The DOS program 2M can get about ≈2 million bytes on a 3.5" HD disk.
Floppotron on YouTube is worth listening!