End of an Era... 3 1/2" diskette sales to end.

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Always preferred Verbatim gold floppies for all formats (5.25" and 3.5" low and high dense).
Still have several USB floppy drives around just in case.

 

[ViRGE]

Nah that was Windows 3.1. Windows 95 would have taken a shit ton more than that.

Windows 3.1 was 6 floppies. I think I still have them around here somewhere.

 

[Locut0s]

Yup about fucking time as others mentioned.

You know it was a long time back that I started to realize that nothing fit on a fucking floppy. This isn't a sign of the times.

You know what's a sign of the times? I'm starting now to notice that nothing much fits on a fucking CD! It will be a long long time before CDs ever get phased out because of the music industry but I rarely ever burn anything to CDs any more, it's always DVDs if I'm burning a disc.

And with HD video I can't even get much on a DVD.

 

[JMapleton]

Good riddance, those things were damn unreliable. I lost a lot of high school homework on them.

 

[QueBert]

Nothing on a PC had the life the Floppy has. I mean since the original 3.5" Floppy came out we've had the double density Floppies, the LS-120 and the Zip drives. None of those are still around and all have been dead for ages. But the Floppy still has some life left in it, even it just a bit. That's pretty damn impressive IMHO.

 

[Locut0s]

Good riddance, those things were damn unreliable. I lost a lot of high school homework on them.

Sure that wasn't the greasy food crumbs? Seriously they were bad but I never had THAT much problem with them. In fact I have a number of old discs lying around here from years back that I can still read.

 

[JMapleton]

Sure that wasn't the greasy food crumbs? Seriously they were bad but I never had THAT much problem with them. In fact I have a number of old discs lying around here from years back that I can still read.

I think I had the super cheap ones.

I had the worst luck with them, I would lose crap like a week after I saved it.

I then devised a "password system" (more like a hidden file system) to protect my files by creating 27 folders in the disk, one for each letter of the alphabet, then 27 folders inside each of those folders for each letter and then my homework inside one of those 729 or so folders and memorizing the combination, and then realizing those empty folders alone used up like 75% of it's storage capacity so I couldn't save my homework except in maybe a txt file.

 

[alfa147x]

:'''(

 

[guyver01]

I then devised a "password system" (more like a hidden file system) to protect my files by creating 27 folders in the disk, one for each letter of the alphabet, then 27 folders inside each of those folders for each letter and then my homework inside one of those 729 or so folders and memorizing the combination, and then realizing those empty folders alone used up like 75% of it's storage capacity so I couldn't save my homework except in maybe a txt file.

 

[grrl]

Good riddance, those things were damn unreliable. I lost a lot of high school homework on them.

A friend of mine lost her whole master's thesis.

 

[BoomerD]

I think I had the super cheap ones.

I had the worst luck with them, I would lose crap like a week after I saved it.

I then devised a "password system" (more like a hidden file system) to protect my files by creating 27 folders in the disk, one for each letter of the alphabet, then 27 folders inside each of those folders for each letter and then my homework inside one of those 729 or so folders and memorizing the combination, and then realizing those empty folders alone used up like 75% of it's storage capacity so I couldn't save my homework except in maybe a txt file.

What language do you use? English only has 26 letters in its alphabet...

 

[eldorado99]

Windows 3.1 was 6 floppies. I think I still have them around here somewhere.

I still have Windows 95 on floppy. It takes 15 floppies.

 

[0roo0roo]

I think I had the super cheap ones.

I had the worst luck with them, I would lose crap like a week after I saved it.

I then devised a "password system" (more like a hidden file system) to protect my files by creating 27 folders in the disk, one for each letter of the alphabet, then 27 folders inside each of those folders for each letter and then my homework inside one of those 729 or so folders and memorizing the combination, and then realizing those empty folders alone used up like 75% of it's storage capacity so I couldn't save my homework except in maybe a txt file.

wouldn't a dir /s *.txt or something defeat that?

 

[Leros]

wouldn't a dir /s *.txt or something defeat that?

That's what I was wondering.

 

[Hacp]

A friend of mine lost her whole master's thesis.

No backup?

 

[Ksyder]

I have noticed a disproportionate amount of elderly people using floppies because thats what they know. Mention burning a cd instead and you will be met with a blank stare

 

[PottedMeat]

I fucking hate those things, most unreliable storage media ever. I remember losing a bunch of schoolwork to errors in high school. Sometimes you could fix a read error by blowing into the dust cover. In college I'd put homework on floppies to print at the computer lab and if those went bad I kept a ftp server on my computer just in case.

Made passing around a copy of Command & Conquer a bitch too in high school. Disk read error on floppy #14/30?!?!? FUCK!

DEATH TO ALL MECHANICAL DATA STORAGE!

 

[puffff]

i last used them 4-5 years ago. but they were incredibly useful. there's always going to be a use for cheap disposable media to move small files between offline computers.

 

[Modelworks]

And the port will still take up motherboard space. I understand why, floppy is the most basic media interface there is on the pc for media, but I haven't used one in a long time.

Buy a few boxes now, put them in the closet for about 10 years and profit. 8" floppies blank now sell for up to $50 a box .

 

[Modelworks]

wouldn't a dir /s *.txt or something defeat that?

its

dir /s > dir.txt

or if you don't want to save it dir /s /p

 

[meltdown75]

I just used one 2 weeks ago :'(

 

[jlee]

I think I had the super cheap ones.

I had the worst luck with them, I would lose crap like a week after I saved it.

I then devised a "password system" (more like a hidden file system) to protect my files by creating 27 folders in the disk, one for each letter of the alphabet, then 27 folders inside each of those folders for each letter and then my homework inside one of those 729 or so folders and memorizing the combination, and then realizing those empty folders alone used up like 75% of it's storage capacity so I couldn't save my homework except in maybe a txt file.

Based on your system, I'm wondering if you did indeed lose it - it was actually in the mysterious 27th folder without a letter.

 

[TwiceOver]

The CD shouldn't be too far behind.

 

[Eli]

I'm surprised it took this long..

 

[Linflas]

Nah that was Windows 3.1. Windows 95 would have taken a shit ton more than that.

I remember trying to copy files bigger than 1.44 meg and having to use pkzip to span them across several floppies. For those of you that don't know, pkzip and pkunzip were the dos versions of that wonderful Winzip we have today.

Windows 3.1 used 5 disks, 3.11 for Workgroups 7. 95 was available on floppys and IIRC it was around 25-30. I remember MS used something called DMF format to increase the amount they could squeeze onto a floppy to around 1.8 MB per disk.

Just looked it up, 95 came on 13 DMF disks.