Hardware Found a floppy at my grandpa's house

[s157]

I love how the mosted voted on answer is the missile codes.

 

[RustInPeace]

It was hard before. It's floppy now because your grandma got all over me for the ride of her advanced life, and it's clean thanks to her tongue.

I felt like making a dirty joke.

 

[netovsk]

My friends used to split games in .arj format into small 1.4 mb files and take those floppies over to each other's computers to share the games.

 

[FAST6191]

Great to store sensitive information on. its a format no longer used that makes it harder to use. Why store passwords on flash drives that are easily stolen and any pc can use them. Good luck using 5 1/4 floppy on a modern pc. well i guess i just told yal where my passwords are. yeah on floppies in a box of 100 and no labels lol

Most save managers will happily encrypt your password lists.

Equally store data long term on a weak magnetic media hugely prone to bad sectors? Yeah right.

Security by obscurity ain't security.

 

[sarkwalvein]

On that note, my floppies back from the C64 days (written in 1986 I think) still work.

PS: They totally seem less susceptible to mold damage than many of my ~1999 written CDs that are already very spotty and dead.

 

[RandomUser]

pfft, those are still used today, i tought i was about a "FLOPPY DISK"

Look, Look, I found a queen

Spoiler: 8 inch Floppy Disk

 

[sarkwalvein]

Oh, so you have the Russian missile codes there.

 

[Clydefrosch]

chances are its not very readable anymore anyway. the ones you could rewrite had a shelflive of 5-6 years on average

 

[urherenow]

Good luck using 5 1/4 floppy on a modern pc.

How do you think all the .d64 images were made for C64/c128 emulators? It's trivial to wire up an old parallel printer cable to connect to a 1541/1570/1571/1581 drive. Did it myself to save a bit of programming I did on the thing when I was younger. Loved writing music on the C128 since it was so easy

All relevant info can be found here: http://sta.c64.org/sc.html

I also have plenty of 3 1/2" floppies and a USB floppy drive. Had to, since no modern motherboard has the interface for one anymore (but I still have an internal one in a box somewhere...)

 

[duwen]

i don't see why this is a big deal. Well i guess' to those not used to seeing them. i have many laying around.
I have a SNES copiers that load roms from floppy on to the actual snes.

Yeah, me too... but I finally succumbed to change last year and replaced the floppy drive in my DoctorSF7 with a floppy emulator drive that now contains several hundred virtual floppys on a usb stick. Hooking up an external floppy drive to my pc to copy split games spanned across up to four disks was a major PITA, not to mention the reliability of my limited stock of disks. Now the only issue I have is maintaining a .txt file that lets me know which virtual bank numbers on the emulator drive relate to what disk of what game.

 

[DinohScene]

Good old floppies.

Win 98/Win 95 bootdisks

 

[Captain_N]

Yeah, me too... but I finally succumbed to change last year and replaced the floppy drive in my DoctorSF7 with a floppy emulator drive that now contains several hundred virtual floppys on a usb stick. Hooking up an external floppy drive to my pc to copy split games spanned across up to four disks was a major PITA, not to mention the reliability of my limited stock of disks. Now the only issue I have is maintaining a .txt file that lets me know which virtual bank numbers on the emulator drive relate to what disk of what game.

I use A Super Wild Card DX 2 With an Iomega Zip 100 Parallel port drive. 96mb stores enough snes games per disk. Multi-flopppy spanning games are pain. I horded some extra zip drives to since only the original model works with it.

 

[duwen]

I use A Super Wild Card DX 2 With an Iomega Zip 100 Parallel port drive. 96mb stores enough snes games per disk. Multi-flopppy spanning games are pain. I horded some extra zip drives to since only the original model works with it.

I considered the zipdisk option (just because it would put the stack of zipdisks I have to use), but I only have usb Iomega drives and buying one with parallel port connections was more expensive than the floppy emulator.
...plus, the floppy emulator matches the theme of the device and console nicely...

 

[bananapi761]

I still have a box of floppy disks, I can't remember what they were used for, but the labels suggest they were old software and recovery tools for Windows and Mac. I have an old '95 Macintosh but the floppy drive doesn't work.