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An 8-inch floppy what ?

ygor — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:19:11 -0400

Oh! Disk

Get your mind outa the gutter. >:D
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You can still buy them

shris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:07:45 -0400

Heh.

Whaddaya know, you can still buy them. How funny.

Link to a place that still sells floppies

shris

Hah, how about an 8-inch floppy!

shris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:03:08 -0400

Heh.

Yep, I actually had an 8-inch floppy disk. It was a program disk, can't remember for what. That *would* have been a cool notebook cover, since I'm in the tech industry. Not sure exactly what people would think of me, carrying round a relic like that, but it would be funny for sure.

An 8-inch floppy would give you enough room to write on, even. :)

shris

The guy that introduced...

ygor — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:43:43 -0400

me to Dungeons & Dragons had a Commodore PET
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old...yes...

ladycat — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:34:48 -0400

I used cassettes for the data on my first computer - a TRS80.

I used punch cards in college, which was the first time I encountered computers on campus. They also had a couple of terminals in the Student Union building - basically an IBM keyboard and a printer - where one could play text-based games or write basic programs in, well, BASIC...

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Yes, I used....

hblanchard — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:54:15 -0400

In graduate school my colleagues and I put all our data on punched cards. A few of the more forward-looking of us used a terminal to input the data -- but of course we then punched out all the data on cards -- in order to keep our data safe and permanent. Hmmm. I think about that sometimes when I transfer stuff from my paper notes into my computer...

Did you use...

ygor — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:20:14 -0400

Punched Cards ? I did in my high school. And before that, in what is now called Middle School (7th/8th grades), I used Paper Tape

I wish I still had that Christmas wreath made from old punch cards.
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

So I'm old, er, "more grown-up"...

VentiDarkRoast — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:08:17 -0400

Of course, some of you here may never have seen, or heard of, these floppies. And they were really floppy, too!

Yeah, I wonder: could you circa-punch those old cassette tapes that I had to use to store data on the Timex Sinclair 1000 that I used in high school?

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I remember those!

ladycat — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:13:36 -0400

Of course, I also remember when a 40MB hard drive was a big deal...

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what if you split them open?

ladycat — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:30 -0400

It's been awhile since I've even looked at the old floppies tucked into various corners of my apartment, but I seem to recall that there's a seam around the edge where the two halves of the shell are joined. If you could crack open that seam and discard the "innards", you'd have the two covers for a little journal, and it should be smurfable.

Alternatively, remember that duct tape is your friend. Extend one edge of each floppy with folded duct tape, and smurf that.

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How about the older 5 and

Chet — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:22:27 -0400

How about the older 5 and 1/4 inch floppies? Those are thinner. Of course, some of you here may never have seen, or heard of, these floppies. And they were really floppy, too!

smurfed floppy disks?

supenguin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:26:58 -0400

Too bad floppy disks are too thick to smurf and turn into a Circa notebook. I've also got a whole box of old CD-R's, but I'm not sure I'd want a round notebook.

-Kenny

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LisaPT — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:50:06 -0400

Great idea, I've got boxes of these things....
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