Computer Disk Notebooks
Submitted by LisaPT on Thu, 2007-08-23 01:50.
Great idea, I've got boxes of these things....
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smurfed floppy disks?
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
what if you split them open?
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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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."
How about the older 5 and
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!
I remember those!
Of course, I also remember when a 40MB hard drive was a big deal...
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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."
So I'm old, er, "more grown-up"...
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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"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act,
but a habit." - Aristotle
Did you use...
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)
Yes, I used....
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...
old...yes...
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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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."
The guy that introduced...
me to Dungeons & Dragons had a Commodore PET
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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)
Hah, how about an 8-inch floppy!
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
You can still buy them
Heh.
Whaddaya know, you can still buy them. How funny.
Link to a place that still sells floppies
shris
An 8-inch floppy what ?
Oh! Disk
Get your mind outa the gutter. >:D
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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)